Yesterday I baked a cake. I made it from scratch, I put it in the oven, I watched it, I took it out. Some sneak took them out of the pans, but luckily I didn't let that same sneak frost it.
I frosted it while it was still slightly warm, where it was cool enough to frost, but still a bit fragile. You know what I didn't do? I didn't ruin the cake one bit. I frosted, it, frosted it right, and it tasted great.
It's a rather dark cake. Made using Hershey's "Special Dark" Cocoa powder, which actually made it quite good.
You know how I did it? I followed the recipe, exactly as it was. It's weird, I know, but following recipes can give a pretty good result. Sure, being a master at cooking usually involves being able to tell how strong stuff is or isn't, and changing the recipe on the spot so flavors are still balanced and such, but I can at least read the notes on the page, and follow the dynamics just as it says.
Yes, I just changed a cooking tale into a music tale. Sure, with music I can follow the song's dynamics. The unwritten ones that you can just feel should be there, those are the song's dynamics. The page is just a few hints here and there, but music is more then a sheet of paper. Why only learn from that sheet, if there's so much more?
So these things, they apply to all things, don't you think? If you want to master something, you have to be able to feel it out, and if you'd like to be good at something, you have to know how to read the page. That's life.
Keep learning. I know you can do it.
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