{"id":2325,"date":"2016-05-15T16:54:58","date_gmt":"2016-05-15T16:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/guitargav.writesthisblog.com\/?p=2325"},"modified":"2016-05-15T17:01:57","modified_gmt":"2016-05-15T17:01:57","slug":"gravity-defying-plectrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/guitargav.writesthisblog.com\/index.php\/2016\/05\/15\/gravity-defying-plectrum\/","title":{"rendered":"Gravity Defying Plectrum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It took me a few minutes<\/strong> to realise that he hadn&#8217;t dropped the pick for a few practice sessions now, \u00a0something quite common with <span style=\"color: #000080;\">strumming<\/span> patterns when learning pop songs from <strong><em>Oasis<\/em><\/strong> to <em><strong>The Jam<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2326\" src=\"http:\/\/pyramidhead.forgot.his.name\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_20160514_095141-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20160514_095141\" width=\"567\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"http:\/\/pyramidhead.forgot.his.name\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_20160514_095141-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/pyramidhead.forgot.his.name\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_20160514_095141-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/pyramidhead.forgot.his.name\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_20160514_095141-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 567px) 100vw, 567px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Notice<\/span> anything unusual?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2327\" src=\"http:\/\/pyramidhead.forgot.his.name\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_20160514_095201-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20160514_095201\" width=\"563\" height=\"422\" srcset=\"http:\/\/pyramidhead.forgot.his.name\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_20160514_095201-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/pyramidhead.forgot.his.name\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_20160514_095201-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/pyramidhead.forgot.his.name\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_20160514_095201-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 563px) 100vw, 563px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The best advice<\/strong> to pass on today from my student is that in order to reduce the amount of times the plectrum falls into the sound hole and keep a good grip in general, \u00a0use <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">reversible<\/span> sticky tape. \u00a0 Recommended for playing strong rhythmic songs.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks Keith!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It took me a few minutes to realise that he hadn&#8217;t dropped the pick for a few practice sessions now, \u00a0something quite common with strumming patterns when learning pop songs from Oasis to The Jam. Notice anything unusual? &nbsp; The best advice to pass on today from my student is that in order to reduce [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[53,108,286,40,11,74,123],"class_list":["post-2325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-resources","tag-6-string","tag-discover","tag-fun","tag-learn-to-play","tag-learning-guitar","tag-plectrum","tag-rhythm","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/guitargav.writesthisblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325","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=2325"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/guitargav.writesthisblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2336,"href":"http:\/\/guitargav.writesthisblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325\/revisions\/2336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/guitargav.writesthisblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/guitargav.writesthisblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/guitargav.writesthisblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}