"Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect." - Vince Lombardi
Practice is easy.
Mindlessly going over the pentatonic scales, or copying examples from a programming book is practice.
Learning your favorite bands' songs or looking through open source projects is a little better, but, alas, still just practice.
Taking what you know and applying it to writing your own music or programming projects is getting really close. But its still just practice.
Now, take the result of the previous step, and show it to a mentor or a group of knowledgable people and have them critique it. Have a meaningful conversation with them as to why the various pieces don't fit, truly internalizing why it doesn't work(this will probably involve digging deeper into theory or programming language, or drawing from examples of other musicians or open source code), and hammer the jenky pieces until they are flawless.
Perfect practice is a bitch.
When I was younger, I never made it past playing mindless pentatonic scales and learning easy parts of songs.
I still have plenty of jenky pieces left in powerlifting, bodybuilding, and software development but at least I am hammering in the right pieces.
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