{"id":164,"date":"2016-01-31T14:17:09","date_gmt":"2016-01-31T14:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pyramidhead.forgot.his.name\/?p=164"},"modified":"2016-02-06T19:05:24","modified_gmt":"2016-02-06T19:05:24","slug":"achieving-guitar-with-hearing-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/guitargav.writesthisblog.com\/index.php\/2016\/01\/31\/achieving-guitar-with-hearing-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Achieving guitar with hearing loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_style\"><strong>With hearing difficulties learning an instrument can have implications. \u00a0\u00a0But with time and practice mastering chords can done.\u00a0 My student proves it.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_style\">Gav\u2019s course has helped him immensely because learners sit round a table so eye contact is level. I&#8217;ve noticed that Simon has looked across to other learners whilst enjoying strumming his chords which shows he is developing his communication skills for bonding, communicating, and socialising, this is still quite new to him in this particular surrounding on the guitar course. Perhaps possibilities were otherwise limited in other situations outside of taught sessions.\u00a0 Basic social skills have been learned in other voluntary gatherings which Simon enjoys, such as Deaf Club.<span class=\"style_2\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_style_1\"><span class=\"style_2\">I<\/span>n a familiar social setting that he is becoming more comfortable with, he has achieved chord construction, achieving a one finger variation of &#8216;C&#8217; and &#8216;G&#8217; chord,\u00a0 with this he will get better at remembering the three finger version of &#8216;D&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_style_1\">He will now start to learn bass in 2016.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_style_1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-447\" src=\"http:\/\/pyramidhead.forgot.his.name\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/SImon-Screen-shot_Snapseed-300x233.jpg\" alt=\"SImon Screen shot_Snapseed\" width=\"300\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"http:\/\/pyramidhead.forgot.his.name\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/SImon-Screen-shot_Snapseed-300x233.jpg 300w, http:\/\/pyramidhead.forgot.his.name\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/SImon-Screen-shot_Snapseed-768x596.jpg 768w, http:\/\/pyramidhead.forgot.his.name\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/SImon-Screen-shot_Snapseed.jpg 794w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_style_1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-441\" src=\"http:\/\/pyramidhead.forgot.his.name\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Learning-Bass-pic1_Snapseed-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Learning Bass pic1_Snapseed\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/pyramidhead.forgot.his.name\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Learning-Bass-pic1_Snapseed-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/pyramidhead.forgot.his.name\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Learning-Bass-pic1_Snapseed-768x575.jpg 768w, http:\/\/pyramidhead.forgot.his.name\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Learning-Bass-pic1_Snapseed.jpg 903w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_style_1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-442\" src=\"http:\/\/pyramidhead.forgot.his.name\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Simon-bass-picking_Snapseed-300x222.jpg\" alt=\"Simon bass picking_Snapseed\" width=\"300\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"http:\/\/pyramidhead.forgot.his.name\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Simon-bass-picking_Snapseed-300x222.jpg 300w, http:\/\/pyramidhead.forgot.his.name\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Simon-bass-picking_Snapseed-768x569.jpg 768w, http:\/\/pyramidhead.forgot.his.name\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Simon-bass-picking_Snapseed.jpg 886w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_style_1\"><em>Thursday, 10 December 2015<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With hearing difficulties learning an instrument can have implications. \u00a0\u00a0But with time and practice mastering chords can done.\u00a0 My student proves it. Gav\u2019s course has helped him immensely because learners sit round a table so eye contact is level. I&#8217;ve noticed that Simon has looked across to other learners whilst enjoying strumming his chords which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":855,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[22,13,40,12],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lessons","tag-beginner","tag-experience","tag-learn-to-play","tag-learning-bass"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/guitargav.writesthisblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/guitargav.writesthisblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/guitargav.writesthisblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/guitargav.writesthisblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/guitargav.writesthisblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/guitargav.writesthisblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":448,"href":"http:\/\/guitargav.writesthisblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions\/448"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/guitargav.writesthisblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/guitargav.writesthisblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/guitargav.writesthisblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/guitargav.writesthisblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}