Glenn Frey of Eagles fame lived below Jackson Browne of Jackson Browne fame in Echo Park, California at the beginning of the 1970s.
Browne practiced. Practice. Not a game — we’re talking about practice. Have you ever stood in a mostly empty apartment and played the same lick on piano dozens of times to make sure 1) You’ve got it down and 2) You didn’t miss any room for an interesting choice?
One day when their friend Don Henley scooted over to Frey’s, Browne was at it again. He’d play one bar of a song he was working on a few times.