{"id":1818,"date":"2014-05-10T09:05:37","date_gmt":"2014-05-10T16:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/?p=1818"},"modified":"2018-03-03T09:07:55","modified_gmt":"2018-03-03T17:07:55","slug":"musical-myths-i-was-taught","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/archives\/1818","title":{"rendered":"Musical Myths I was Taught"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><u>Classical music good, jazz <!--more-->bad.<\/u><\/p>\n<p><i>One previous\u2014 highly gifted \u2014 student in my first teacher\u2019s studio had become (gasp!) a jazz musician. His name was not spoken.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><u>Playing from score good, by ear bad.<\/u><\/p>\n<p><i>And improvising was especially bad.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><u>Piano technique is a single monolithic thing.<\/u><\/p>\n<p><i>And it\u2019s all about fingers.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><u>Slow practice good, fast practice bad.<\/u><i> <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Fast is superficial, and borders on immoral (just as many people view slow and fast thinking).<\/i> <span class=\"jb-end-of-post\"><span class=\"jb-end-of-post\"><img class=\"jb-end-of-post\" src=\"\/Mordent.svg\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Classical music good, jazz<\/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\/1818"}],"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=1818"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1820,"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1818\/revisions\/1820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}