{"id":1845,"date":"2014-08-13T17:56:38","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T00:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/?p=1845"},"modified":"2018-03-03T17:58:07","modified_gmt":"2018-03-04T01:58:07","slug":"glued-to-the-keys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/archives\/1845","title":{"rendered":"Glued to the Keys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our fingers press keys down to play notes; and without realizing it, we may be imagining <i>pulling the fingers up<\/i> to end the notes, as though the fingers were glued to the keys. But we needn\u2019t lift the fingers; the keys will do that for us. All we need do is stop holding them down.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Play a note and hold the key down, then slide your finger off the front of the key, and notice how the key comes up on its own.<\/p>\n<p>Again play a note and hold the key down; then\u2014don\u2019t lift or slide the finger\u2014just stop actively holding it down. Notice that the up-force of the key lifts the finger.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, just let go! A daily minute or two on this with single notes and chords in hands separate and together will add to your repertoire of finger techniques.<span class=\"jb-end-of-post\"><img class=\"jb-end-of-post\" src=\"\/Mordent.svg\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our fingers press keys down to play notes; and without realizing it, we may be imagining pulling the fingers up to end the notes, as though the fingers were glued to the keys. But we needn\u2019t lift the fingers; the keys will do that for us. All we need do is stop holding them down.<\/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\/1845"}],"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=1845"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1846,"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845\/revisions\/1846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}