{"id":17,"date":"2004-12-16T09:46:42","date_gmt":"2004-12-16T17:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregbueno.com\/wp\/meisakuki\/2004\/12\/16\/finally\/"},"modified":"2004-12-16T09:46:42","modified_gmt":"2004-12-16T17:46:42","slug":"finally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/meisakuki\/2004\/12\/16\/finally\/","title":{"rendered":"Finally &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday night, I finally made it all the way through Johann Sebastian Bach&#8217;s Invention No. 13.<\/p>\n<p>It took me three months to reach that point, so I&#8217;m feeling very proud of myself.<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;m nowhere ready to perform it live. And there&#8217;s no way I can play it at the tempo marking. Hell, I can barely get to <i>half<\/i> the tempo marking.<\/p>\n<p>So it&#8217;s going to take another few months &#8212; at least a year, if I start slacking &#8212; to get the point where I can play this piece in public.<\/p>\n<p>Right now, the individual pieces of my current repertoire include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> &#8220;Big My Secret&#8221; from <i>The Piano<\/i> by Michael Nyman\n<li> &#8220;A Mood That Passes Through You&#8221; from <i>The Piano<\/i> by Michael Nyman\n<li> &#8220;The Heart Seeks Pleasure First&#8221; from <i>The Piano<\/i> by Michael Nyman\n<li> Moonlight Sonata, First movement by Ludwig Van Beethoven\n<li> Invention No. 13 by Johann Sebastian Bach\n<\/ul>\n<p>I may continue learning more pieces from <i>The Piano<\/i>, and I may even be brave enough to start working on the second movement of the Moonlight Sonata.<\/p>\n<p>For some reason, I&#8217;ve been toying with Claude Debussy&#8217;s &#8220;Claire de Lune&#8221;, and there&#8217;s still some Scarlatti and Mozart books I haven&#8217;t cracked open yet.<\/p>\n<p>But I feel good about finally being able to play the Invention No. 13 from start to finish &#8212; for the most part.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally made it all the way through Johann Sebastian Bach&#8217;s Invention No. 13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s4Bkir-finally","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/meisakuki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/meisakuki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/meisakuki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/meisakuki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/meisakuki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/meisakuki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/meisakuki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/meisakuki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/meisakuki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}