{"id":428,"date":"2016-09-05T09:31:32","date_gmt":"2016-09-05T04:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hunteeboy.com\/playitbyear\/?p=428"},"modified":"2016-09-06T03:43:14","modified_gmt":"2016-09-05T22:43:14","slug":"in-the-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hunteeboy.com\/playitbyear\/?p=428","title":{"rendered":"In The Zone&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_498\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-498\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hunteeboy.com\/playitbyear\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/InTheZone.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-498\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hunteeboy.com\/playitbyear\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/InTheZone.png\" alt=\"In The Zone - Getting There is HALF the BATTLE!!!\" width=\"240\" height=\"37\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-498\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">#InTheZone: Getting There -HALF D\u00a0BATTLE!!!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Achieving Success at Playing By Ear and for doing anything in life is a matter of planning and hard work. To get to the place where you are successful is not a random event that happens due to flights of chance or fancy. It takes lots of hard work. You have to be in the zone.<\/p>\n<p>What does being &#8220;In The Zone&#8230;&#8221; mean? It means that there you have a sense of focus on what you are trying to accomplish. It means that you make the necessary sacrifices needed to finish what you have started. When I was learning to play the guitar for the second time, I had to make sacrifices so that I could learn. I took lessons. I had consistent practice times. I worked on specific things, one at a time. There was focus there.<\/p>\n<p>Keep up the focus. Stay on the right path. Practice your instument, and Keep Playing By Ear!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Achieving Success at Playing By Ear and for doing anything in life is a matter of planning and hard work. To get to the place where you are successful is not a random event that happens due to flights of chance or fancy. It takes lots of hard work. You have to be in the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hunteeboy.com\/playitbyear\/?p=428\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">In The Zone&#8230;<\/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":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hunteeboy.com\/playitbyear\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428","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=428"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.hunteeboy.com\/playitbyear\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":520,"href":"http:\/\/www.hunteeboy.com\/playitbyear\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions\/520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hunteeboy.com\/playitbyear\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hunteeboy.com\/playitbyear\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hunteeboy.com\/playitbyear\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}