Edit the following sentence to make it more parallel. To become a professional musician takes thousands of hours of practice and also working hard to make connections in the industry.
Note, to make a sentence more parallel simply means separating the details to allow easy understanding and remembrance by the readers of what was said.
So it could be written as;
To become a professional musician involves taking:
thousands of hours of practice and
finally working hard to make connections in the music industry.
