If you quote that to a master of any art they will without doubt not see it as cut and dry as that.
A personal race with myself… Yes.
To personally win.
It’s a race for me to master the bass before I die…
Even masters lose it, one day the student becomes better than the master, and so on.
So beyond all that rabbit hole of subjective sorting out of grammar and meanings and yak…
What are you playing lately?
Do you like so called prog rock?
How about Rush? Are you familiar with their music?
Have they had any hits I might know?
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They had probably 15 plus major hits.
I’ve been on a Rush tear playing little else the last 2 weeks.
2112
A Passage To Bangkok
Red Barchetta
The Trees
Tom Sawyer
Limelight
The Spirit Of Radio
Fly By Night
These songs above I’ve got a good handle on plus a couple more, played them all at least 25 times each lately.
But I don’t have much practice playing YYZ yet.
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What are you playing lately?
I really like Beyerdynamics too, love my DT990 Pros.
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Yeah this is a good way to look at it I think. Music is not a competition and such comparative perfectionism sucks the joy out of any craft for me.
Not saying it’s wrong to look at it as a race with oneself against the clock; whatever works for you, etc. I’m just glad I don’t see it that way myself.
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True Dat!
I like the 500 hours method though. If you just plow through your practice and lessons, while difficult as you go but looking back at the 3 months mark or around 200+ hours you’ll be amazed at how much you have achieved. I do that “dog with a bone” approach on much of everything I do, except for guitar, 
If I’d done that I’d probably be a decent guitar player by now.
I have 20 new songs I’m learning right now for a visiting artist in March. I just sat down and put up the sheet music in front of me and just go at it. Full speed sight read did that twice today and it’s doable.
My next session, I’d break it down and slow it down and commit them to memory. 2 sets of 10, 90 mins each day til middle of February, then combine both at full speed until rehearsal, after that play them in 3 keys, It’s doable.
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Nothing good comes without putting in the work, 100% true.
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I’m looking forward to this song, I heard that about 10-15 guitarists will play on this one, so I guess we’ll be playing it a few times,
I’m hoping that I can hop on the drums of one of the take.
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Your right…
That’s really funny… 
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I have seen more people quit different arts than stay for the long run.
All of you here are the stayers, long run players who have been around the preverbal block and made it past that give up period.
Get good fast or the likelihood of not continuing I believe increases drastically.
Regardless - thank you everyone for a great forum I’m learning lots from all of you…
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That’s my favorite post today.
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Me to bass with tears in my eyes: I just can’t quit you, bass!
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Love it…
And great name ghost_note…
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oh why thank you! it signifies all the happy accidents that I meant to be living notes.
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I understand that notion very well, especially since I get older and know that time is limited.
Everything becomes a race, so I try to learn (“master” is a strong word) everything I stumble over … which is quite a lot 
BassBuzz is the right play for pit stops in your race!
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it seems a person needs to have certain amount of life experience as in age before realizing the importance and shortness of available time.
Bass on bass brother.
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