Apprentice is the beginner - the first years you work in a craft in the European sense you are an apprentice. That takes 3 or 4 years. Then you are a journeyman. You can go from one master to another and learn other tricks and other secrets.
“You know what they say about Chicago. If you don't like the weather, wait fifteen minutes.”
“I knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice.”