And there are kids who are, can never quite get over that. They're ones who cannot carve out the time to compose. Well, I can't give a number to that. I think the important thing is carving out the psychological space. And if they can, you have to sort of dump everything, and clear the psychic desk, so to speak, to get down to a spot where the musical thoughts have room to formulate themselves.
Some students can reach that spot very quickly.
Others need a lot more time. I guess one thing I do feel is that they've got to clear an ample space of time as much as possible every day. That's certainly true for my own work, I feel like when I'm involved in a piece, it's really just got to be regular work even if it's a brief amount of time. And then the most important thing, I think is just, whatever time one needs to make room for the business of composing. Music theory, and other things.