{"id":9,"date":"2005-01-20T00:06:27","date_gmt":"2005-01-20T00:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/musings\/2005\/01\/20\/split_brain\/"},"modified":"2005-01-20T00:06:27","modified_gmt":"2005-01-20T00:06:27","slug":"split_brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/musings\/archives\/split_brain.shtml","title":{"rendered":"Split Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I had my first jazz piano lesson since I was 4 years old.  I enjoyed it thoroughly!<br \/>\nMy jazz piano teacher is here at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jazzkaya.com\/\">http:\/\/www.jazzkaya.com<\/a>.  I am glad I found him because he will take me down the jazz\/improvisation route, versus ending up in classical where I really DID NOT want to end up.<br \/>\nSure is different experience than when I was 4 years old.  I had this old Russian lady who taught my sister and me, albeit my sister stuck with it for many years.  I could only stomach the posture and exact proper technique for about a few months before I quit.<br \/>\nThis piano teacher is completely the opposite.  Very free form as jazz musicians will be, and very into playing however one is comfortable.  More to my liking!<br \/>\nMy first lesson sure caused my brain to split up. Interesting ambidextrous neural pathways I could feel being built and rebuilt as I played scales with both hands.  Very stressful in some ways, but I really still enjoyed the uncomfortable situation a lot.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a lot like triathlon training for me.  Learning something completely new, and causing your body to behave in unfamiliar ways.  It&#8217;s the only way to grow!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I had my first jazz piano lesson since I was 4 years old. I enjoyed it thoroughly! My jazz piano teacher is here at http:\/\/www.jazzkaya.com. I am glad I found him because he will take me down the jazz\/improvisation route, versus ending up in classical where I really DID NOT want to end up. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}