A Socratic novel in which Wooten's mysterious teacher reframes every assumption a competent musician holds about what it means to practice, what it means to make a mistake, and what music is actually for. The central argument — that music is a language and you learn languages through immersion and play, not through drilling grammar — is liberating for trained musicians who have practiced themselves into rigidity.
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