{"id":1579,"date":"2013-11-01T16:25:48","date_gmt":"2013-11-01T23:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/?p=1579"},"modified":"2013-11-01T16:20:30","modified_gmt":"2013-11-01T23:20:30","slug":"left-hand-meet-right-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/archives\/1579","title":{"rendered":"Left Hand, Meet Right Hand"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was practicing Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier I, Pr\u00e9lude V<\/a> in my second-favorite room at Longy School (second-floor left front), and quietly going bonkers because I could not get my hands to play exactly together in mm. 29-30, where they’re both in 16ths.<\/p>\n

The next night, I brought a tape recorder and headphones, and recorded myself to see what the problem was.<\/p>\n

There was no problem. The two hands were perfectly simultaneous.<\/p>\n

From this I learned that two hands doing<\/i> the same thing may not feel<\/i> the same—yet another way that recording is useful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was practicing Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier I, Pr\u00e9lude V in my second-favorite room at<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1579"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1587,"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579\/revisions\/1587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}