{"id":3704,"date":"2012-08-20T06:41:22","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T10:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wilktone.com\/?p=3704"},"modified":"2012-08-20T06:41:22","modified_gmt":"2012-08-20T10:41:22","slug":"being-an-effective-music-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/?p=3704","title":{"rendered":"Being an Effective Music Student"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy new academic year! In honor of the fall semester starting up for me today, here is David Zerkel&#8217;s list of <a href=\"https:\/\/horngasmic.wordpress.com\/2012\/08\/15\/some-suggestions-on-being-an-effective-music-student-2012-edition\/\">10 things for being a more effective music student<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Take your classes seriously.<\/li>\n<li>Listen to as much music as you can.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Learn and know your scales and arpeggios.<\/li>\n<li>Schedule your practice time as though it were a class.<\/li>\n<li>Go to concerts.<\/li>\n<li>Embrace what technology has to offer us in developing as musicians.<\/li>\n<li>Be curious.<\/li>\n<li>Play with your peers.<\/li>\n<li>Be serious about your pursuit of excellence.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Know that every great musician in the world still considers himself or herself a student of music.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Read up on what Zerkel says about each item on the Horngasmic blog&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/horngasmic.wordpress.com\/2012\/08\/15\/some-suggestions-on-being-an-effective-music-student-2012-edition\/\">repost<\/a> of his list. Then go check out what James Boldin <a href=\"http:\/\/hornworld.me\/2012\/08\/20\/thoughts-on-david-zerkels-some-suggestions-on-being-an-effective-music-student\/\">adds to this list<\/a> on his Horn World blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy new academic year! In honor of the fall semester starting up for me today, here is David Zerkel&#8217;s list of 10 things for being a more effective music student. Take your classes seriously. Listen to as much music as you can. \u00a0Learn and know your scales and arpeggios. Schedule your practice time as though &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/?p=3704\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Being an Effective Music Student<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15350306,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1368],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peFHCc-XK","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/15350306"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}