It's partly how I learned music. It was a deep curiosity about what and why. You just like to try to emulate that sound, try all variations.

The plot twist was that it turned into "how to learn". Because you can try things blind forever and never make progress. There's a million way to be wrong in music. It teaches you patience and sensitivity. All the beautiful rhythms are very small details invisible to the newcomer, you have to go slow in order not to miss them.

The "between" trick is important. I told above about inertia and thinking about moving as constantly flowing and not as spaced points.