{"id":699,"date":"2018-02-23T03:40:36","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T03:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/larimermusic.com\/?p=699"},"modified":"2018-02-23T03:40:36","modified_gmt":"2018-02-23T03:40:36","slug":"piano-practice-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/larimermusic.com\/?p=699","title":{"rendered":"Piano Practice Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-700\" src=\"http:\/\/larimermusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/DoReMi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/larimermusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/DoReMi.jpg 448w, https:\/\/larimermusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/DoReMi-300x172.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If\u00a0 your young piano player is having difficulty with a particular spot or measure in a song,\u00a0 have him\/her slow down a little right before it and make sure its played correctly.\u00a0 Then have him\/her play it again a little faster until he\/she can play it correctly without slowing first. A young piano student should never stop completely as that breaks the flow of the song and teaches the muscle memory to pause or stop.\u00a0 Also,\u00a0 ask him\/her not to go back to the beginning and start over each time.\u00a0 The pianist should only go back a measure before the problem measure.\u00a0 Studies of piano practice methods have proven this to be the best way to progress into a pianist with lovely flowing technique.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If\u00a0 your young piano player is having difficulty with a particular spot or measure in a song,\u00a0 have him\/her slow down a little right before it and make sure its played correctly.\u00a0 Then have him\/her play it again a little faster until&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-piano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/larimermusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/larimermusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/larimermusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larimermusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larimermusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/larimermusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/larimermusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larimermusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larimermusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}