Do you have friends in your area that you hang out with to exchange musical ideas?
Yeah, my friend Lynn. He is the minister of music in his church, and is teaching me how to play the keyboard.
I also have a friend Jermaine that is helping me with playing bass and the drums. I broke my wrist a few years back, and have just started to get back into playing. Realized how much I sucked before. But he saw my inability, and turned it into a platform to teach from.
I get together with both of them on a regular basis to share ideas, and to collaborate with one another. My assumption was that every musician did this. Now I know my assumtion was incorrect.