{"id":128,"date":"2013-12-27T12:11:58","date_gmt":"2013-12-27T20:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ashworthdavidg.ca\/?p=128"},"modified":"2013-12-27T12:11:58","modified_gmt":"2013-12-27T20:11:58","slug":"round-midnight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2013\/12\/27\/round-midnight\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Round Midnight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been working on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/'Round_Midnight_(song)\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;Round Midnight<\/a>\u00a0for weeks. \u00a0Playing from a lead sheet I had to learn many chords including 13th&#8217;s for the first time. \u00a0The chords are mostly played in a simple stride style but there is one place where the chords are played with open voicings in both hands, and the same sequence played later with chords in the right hand. \u00a0I also learned a colourful ending.<\/p>\n<p>At my last lesson my teacher said that I should add dynamics to finish this piece off. \u00a0I went home and listened to all the recording that I have on this, came up with some ideas, and then practiced. \u00a0I like to record songs to finish them off. \u00a0The recording process is intense but eventually I end up with a best recording that I am proud of.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8216;Round Midnight<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8211; Thelonious Monk<br \/>\n[dewplayer:http:\/\/ashworthdavidg.ca\/new\/piano\/20131227.mp3]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been working on &#8216;Round Midnight\u00a0for weeks. \u00a0Playing from a lead sheet I had to learn many chords including 13th&#8217;s for the first time. \u00a0The chords are mostly played in a simple stride style but there is one place where the chords are played with open voicings in both hands, and the same sequence played &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2013\/12\/27\/round-midnight\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8216;Round Midnight&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-piano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}