{"id":20,"date":"2013-10-06T13:58:05","date_gmt":"2013-10-06T13:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hunteeboy.com\/playitbyear\/?p=20"},"modified":"2013-10-06T13:58:05","modified_gmt":"2013-10-06T13:58:05","slug":"fermata-pause-managing-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hunteeboy.com\/playitbyear\/?p=20","title":{"rendered":"Fermata (Pause) &#8211; Managing Failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In all this talk of music, scales and chords, I realized that none of this would make any sense if you don&#8217;t take a step forward. <\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s FERMATA for a moment&#8230; And think about it&#8230;. <\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s say that you want to learn to play by ear, and you&#8217;ve come to a place where you know all the scales, all the chords, all the intervals in all 12 keys, and you still can&#8217;t GET IT! What do you do? Should you give up? Should you quit after 10 times? Or 100? Or 1000 ? NO! It&#8217;s not an option! <\/p>\n<p>When <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5pkT_a6VYKY\">James Dyson<\/a> was building his bagless vacuum, he experienced a lot of failure. But he didn&#8217;t quit! He built 5,126 prototypes that did not work.\u00a0 He had 5126 examples of what NOT to do. But his 5,127th vacuum became the first of millions of vacuums that did work! <\/p>\n<p>So should you quit? <\/p>\n<p>NO! Just FERMATA and keep Playing It By Ear! <\/p>\n<p>P. I. B. E. <\/p>\n<p><span class=\"post_sig\">Today is another opportunity to Play It By Ear<br \/>\nP.I.B.E.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In all this talk of music, scales and chords, I realized that none of this would make any sense if you don&#8217;t take a step forward. Let&#8217;s FERMATA for a moment&#8230; And think about it&#8230;. Let&#8217;s say that you want to learn to play by ear, and you&#8217;ve come to a place where you know &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hunteeboy.com\/playitbyear\/?p=20\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fermata (Pause) &#8211; Managing Failure<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hunteeboy.com\/playitbyear\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hunteeboy.com\/playitbyear\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hunteeboy.com\/playitbyear\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hunteeboy.com\/playitbyear\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hunteeboy.com\/playitbyear\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.hunteeboy.com\/playitbyear\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21,"href":"http:\/\/www.hunteeboy.com\/playitbyear\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hunteeboy.com\/playitbyear\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hunteeboy.com\/playitbyear\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hunteeboy.com\/playitbyear\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}