Practice to play/live well

I was going to post this on The Philosophic Blurb, but I thought it might be better understood here. It's not really a philosophy post either but more of a religious post.

I asked my philosphy teacher how God could have created humans out of love if there was nothing to love before he created us. The question can be answered two different ways; one that I have since supplied and one that he supplied. My rather simplistic answer is that God is outside of time so there was never a point, in God's mind, that we did not exist. God perceives all of time as the present, so He is comprehending 50 years ago, 5 minutes ago, 5 seconds from now, 50 hours from now and 500 centuries from now instantaneously, where as humans can only comprehend the exact present (which just passed).

But his answer was far more thought provoking (and alludes to my solution consequently). He explained that we were like an musical lick. You have that lick in your mind before you play it, and then you play it because you like the idea.

So I came up with a longer analogy:

Think of a medium skilled improviser. They have ideas in there head that they want to expresses, but cannot always do so. So they practice scales and patters and learn from the masters in order to be able to express there ideas. The expert improvisers are able to express all of their ideas in a perfect way. In my analogy humans are the improviser. Just as a musician can't hope to express their ideas without practicing alone and with others, the human cannot hope to be virtuous without praying for God's help, and exercising virtue alone and to others. So the musician in the woodshed is like St. Anthony.

It's such a comprehendable idea in music that you need to practice to play well, but few people would say you need to practice to live well.