Practice makes perfect and I think my drum teacher would be horrified to learn that I normally only practice for 1 – 2 hours a week every week and I still pass my lessons.  That was until lately.  I have reached a point where it’s crucial to practice.  I can master my lessons in 1 – 2 hours a week, but when I go to play them for my instructor, I flub up – a lot.  So this week I was going to make it a point to practice every day.  So go ahead.  Ask me how long I’ve practiced so far this week?  Ready for the answer?  ZERO.  I have not practiced at all this week.  I intend to practice tomorrow, but we’ll see how that goes.  Oh well.  It’ll just take me longer to get to where I’m playing things faster.  And I still love it, it’s very relaxing.  So I’m sticking with it and I just have to be okay that when I play for the teacher to pass off my lessons, it’s not going to be perfect and it won’t be very fast (unless it happens to be a very easy lesson that week).  And that’s okay.