"What does it look like?"

"Ah I like to practice alternate picking. I use the earliest ones in Bradbury as warm ups and Clarke and I are working on Banjo Jubilee right now. My sight reading is better than playing from memory, but there are tunes I can play way better than the…"

"How are you getting on, having gone back to the basic banjo techniques? Hopefully you will begin to realise a marked improvement in your whole approach to the instrument and the genre. "

"I don't have a daily practice routine, I just get it in when I can because it is very loud and the squillo (overtones) is/are deafening. I pretty much set my own because he just guides me in faults in technique, I'm at an advanced enough…"

"That is very impressive. What daily practice routine has your teacher set for you?"

"I'm quite advanced, but not to a professional level yet"

"How are you progressing in learning the fundamental elements of opera singing?"

"I'm an opera singer in training and a composer."

"Yes, it can be.  Are you currently learning to play any other instruments, or only the banjo?"

"Hard to say, but organized or even random sound can be music."

"Austin, what is music to you?"

"Indeed.  "

"There is plenty of room for interpretation, but it should have some sort of cohesiveness about it.  Much of classic banjo music is in "dance" form and thus requires strict time.  Others are rubato and freeform but should come…"

"I have to ask, what is music to you? You seem to have a very strict sense of what it is. Also, is there no room for interpretation?"

"Usually when there is a name and then under that name there is "arr" or "arranged"(or similar) and another name, that means that the top name is the composer and the second is the arranger for the specific instrument the…"

"Sorry to reply again, should I slide to create the wind effect?"