{"id":1849,"date":"2014-08-24T18:01:31","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T01:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/?p=1849"},"modified":"2018-03-03T18:02:37","modified_gmt":"2018-03-04T02:02:37","slug":"donnez-moi-ein-break-time-off-from-piano-practicing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/archives\/1849","title":{"rendered":"Donnez-moi ein Break! (Time Off From Piano Practicing)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ten seconds \u2013 Hands off keys; stand up; take deep breath; yell at piano, composer or self; laugh; sit; play. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Thirty seconds or as needed \u2013 Dance around room, singing problematic passage. Don\u2019t trip!<\/p>\n<p>Two hours \u2013 Minimum break after four hours\u2019 practice. (Ninety minute min. after three hours.) <\/p>\n<p>Thirty-six continuous hours \u2013 Weekly break; say from a suppertime to second morning after. Don\u2019t touch piano!<\/p>\n<p>Three continuous weeks \u2013 Annual break. Takes perhaps two weeks to come back from it; and when you do, you\u2019re playing better. <\/p>\n<p>Eighteen months? \u2013 Not a break, but a crisis. See <a href=\"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/?p=116\"><i>Thank You, Jacquie D.<\/i><\/a>. <span class=\"jb-end-of-post\"><img class=\"jb-end-of-post\" src=\"\/Mordent.svg\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ten seconds \u2013 Hands off keys; stand up; take deep breath; yell at piano, composer or self; laugh; sit; play.<\/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\/1849"}],"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=1849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1850,"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1849\/revisions\/1850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}