{"id":1707,"date":"2016-09-14T19:32:57","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T02:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/?p=1707"},"modified":"2018-03-01T20:03:50","modified_gmt":"2018-03-02T04:03:50","slug":"stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/archives\/1707","title":{"rendered":"STOP!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So simple it sounds silly:<\/p>\n<p>At a random time during practice, STOP! Ask yourself<!--more-->,<br \/>\n\u201cWhat precisely am I trying to do at this moment?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Be Specific! Not \u201cObserve the crescendo\u201d or even \u201cImprove the crescendo,\u201d but \u201cFind the score-elements that energize the crescendo; that create it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Not \u201cAppreciate the sonority more,\u201d but, \u201cRelate the sonority to the harmonic series.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Not \u201cPlaying with correct rhythm,\u201d but \u201cCreating rhythm that breathes and dances.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My one-time landlord, Michael Malosek, cellist and herb doctor, used to refer to \u201cthinking-practice.\u201d The Stop! and Think technique can be a productive element of it.<span class=\"jb-end-of-post\"><img class=\"jb-end-of-post\" src=\"\/Mordent.svg\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So simple it sounds silly: At a random time during practice, STOP! Ask yourself<\/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\/1707"}],"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=1707"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1725,"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707\/revisions\/1725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}