{"id":10,"date":"2011-03-06T04:28:13","date_gmt":"2011-03-06T04:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimsharmonica.posterous.com\/banging-on-the-harp"},"modified":"2017-03-10T14:20:26","modified_gmt":"2017-03-10T22:20:26","slug":"banging-on-the-harp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/banging-on-the-harp\/","title":{"rendered":"Banging on the Harp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p \/>\n<div>My hat goes off to all those wonderful music teachers out there who can listen with patience and good cheer to budding musicians practicing. It must be torture.<\/div>\n<p \/>\n<div>Today&#8217;s 5 minute practice compares to a little kid banging on the piano. It&#8217;s done with enthusiasm, but very little technique. I attempt diaphragmatic breathing, single note scales, note bends, and chugging (chords, not beer).<\/div>\n<p \/>\n<div><b>Warning<\/b>: may be painful at times to listen to.<\/div>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-10-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/audio\/harp2.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/audio\/harp2.mp3\">https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/audio\/harp2.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p \/>\n<div>I recorded this with my&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rolandus.com\/products\/productdetails.php?ProductId=960\">Edirol R-09HD<\/a>&nbsp;stereo recorder in my lap. I like the simplicity and quality of this little recorder.<\/div>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Edirol-r-09hd\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/cbfdd-edirol-r-09hd.jpg?resize=219%2C400&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"219\" \/><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<div>It&#8217;s easy to carry around and use anywhere. It records WAV or MP3 files to a SD card. So, transferring the recordings to the computer is a snap. I made three recordings and edited pieces from each together into the finished composite using Audacity.<\/div>\n<p \/>\n<div>Jim<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My hat goes off to all those wonderful music teachers out there who can listen with patience and good cheer to budding musicians practicing. It must be torture.Today&#8217;s 5 minute practice compares to a little kid banging on the piano. It&#8217;s done with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-harmonica","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3xTIN-a","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1688,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions\/1688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}