I was once told by a Piano Professor at the univeristy I attended that with music in general (even though we were talking about piano at the time), its 2% education and 98% practice.

I am a self tought muscian and I play several instruments, even though my main focus is keyboards. The way I did it is by sitting anyhwere there was piano or keys. For the longest time I not only annoyed others but myself too...but I woke up one day, and I was pro sounding guy, even though I will always thrive to improve my skills, cause I don't believe there is a day I reach that I cant get better.

my two cents