{"id":424,"date":"2010-06-17T23:21:34","date_gmt":"2010-06-18T06:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thealpertstudio.com\/?p=424"},"modified":"2010-06-17T23:55:14","modified_gmt":"2010-06-18T06:55:14","slug":"listen-and-learn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thealpertstudio.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/17\/listen-and-learn\/","title":{"rendered":"Listen and Learn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m always impressed by what my violin students are doing, though today I was extra impressed by 8 year old Zachary. I&#8217;d been wondering how well he&#8217;s been keeping up with his listening assignments and today I found out.<\/p>\n<p>I played the opening notes of two separate end of Suzuki Book 1 songs that Zach has yet to study. He was able to pick out the remaining notes of both songs without any assistance. He had absorbed them simply by listening.<\/p>\n<p>Need to learn a new piece? Start by listening, listening, listening. Listening works in amazing ways. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m always impressed by what my violin students are doing, though today I was extra impressed by 8 year old Zachary. I&#8217;d been wondering how well he&#8217;s been keeping up with his listening assignments and today I found out. I played the opening notes of two separate end of Suzuki Book 1 songs that Zach [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[22,13,57,58],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thealpertstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thealpertstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thealpertstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thealpertstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thealpertstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thealpertstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thealpertstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thealpertstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thealpertstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}