{"id":2321,"date":"2016-05-15T16:45:59","date_gmt":"2016-05-15T16:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/guitargav.writesthisblog.com\/?p=2321"},"modified":"2016-05-15T17:51:37","modified_gmt":"2016-05-15T17:51:37","slug":"what-a-workout-blog-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/guitargav.writesthisblog.com\/index.php\/2016\/05\/15\/what-a-workout-blog-6\/","title":{"rendered":"What a workout! (Blog 6)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Bass\"My student gets a huge kick from working the notes out himself. \u00a0 \u00a0Read about the common things that can happen during practice, a few things I see students\u00a0experience during the week. \u00a0<\/em>
\nUnusually<\/strong><\/span> I had a couple of hours free this Saturday afternoon and took the bass for an unexpected workout…and what a workout! In my sun lounge, which was very sunny for once and with both\u00a0neighbours out for the afternoon, I worked on and rehearsed Kevin<\/span>
\n Kendle’s<\/span> “Dance of Electra”<\/span>, Ozric Tentacles<\/strong>‘<\/a> “Lost in the sky”<\/span> and the new attempt at their song, “Papyrus”<\/span>. Whilst the left hand\u00a0was generally accurate, the right was far too trigger-happy<\/em> again but calmed with tenacity and some self-restraint. The thrill of
\ngetting it right (the accompaniments) was difficult to contain so I sought out two additional pieces that would have some additional energy, namely Simple Minds<\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0“Themes for great cities”<\/strong> and then a surprise encounter….<\/p>\n

\"Simon With Amazon Music on my smartphone, I stumbled upon a very\u00a0energetic old favourite and, within sixty seconds, unbelievably, worked out the D# and F theme with its D#, C, B, A coda.
\nFor years I’d imagined it to be very complex and at some \u00a0sweat-inducing pace. Not so. In the end, I’d discovered<\/span><\/strong> and played, with real gusto, the introduction to “Baila mi hermana (Dance, sister, dance)”<\/span> from the Moonflower<\/strong> album by Santana<\/span><\/a>. It was a serotonin and adrenalin hit simultaneously! I worked it out. I had done it…and with no one to hear me…performing with all the potency and rhyming hyper-salsa of this 70s Classic…to my thudding hearts content. AS<\/p>\n

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Bass Journal Part 5<\/a><\/p>\n

Bass Journal\u00a0Part 4<\/a><\/p>\n

Bass Journal\u00a0Part 3<\/a><\/p>\n

Bass Journal\u00a0Part 2<\/a><\/p>\n

Bass Journal\u00a0Part 1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My student gets a huge kick from working the notes out himself. \u00a0 \u00a0Read about the common things that can happen during practice, a few things I see students\u00a0experience during the week. \u00a0 Unusually I had a couple of hours free this Saturday afternoon and took the bass for an unexpected workout…and what a workout! […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[54,6,5,52,108,286,664,12,666,28,83,662,70,667,661,663,665,660],"class_list":["post-2321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-4-string","tag-achievement","tag-bass","tag-confidence-gain","tag-discover","tag-fun","tag-hyper-salsa","tag-learning-bass","tag-moonflower","tag-music","tag-notes","tag-ozric-tentacles","tag-practice","tag-santana","tag-saturday","tag-simple-minds","tag-smartphone","tag-workout","post_format-post-format-aside"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/guitargav.writesthisblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2321","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=2321"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/guitargav.writesthisblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2339,"href":"http:\/\/guitargav.writesthisblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2321\/revisions\/2339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/guitargav.writesthisblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/guitargav.writesthisblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/guitargav.writesthisblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}