When you practice or learn something it's not all that pleasant or in that case ’sweet-sounding’ BUT in the end, it pays off and you can make something perfect and wonderful. And you may become more satisfied with knowing how to do it then why you learned how to do it.
It's...almost December actually...
In terms of which art? Visual? Music?
If you are asking in general then the most common meaning of “strands” are ways to identify skills and principles. That’s what we mean when the term is brought up
