{"id":157,"date":"2006-07-17T01:24:54","date_gmt":"2006-07-17T07:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conradaskland.com\/blog\/?p=157"},"modified":"2006-07-17T22:32:32","modified_gmt":"2006-07-18T04:32:32","slug":"qa-what-music-do-you-play-for-pleasure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/qa-what-music-do-you-play-for-pleasure\/","title":{"rendered":"Q and A &#8211; What Music Do You Play For Pleasure?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Laura says:<\/p>\n<p>You\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2ve played a very broad range of styles, with many other well-known<br \/>\nartists, and in some world-reknown places.<\/p>\n<p>Do you, after so many years as a professional musician, still play for<br \/>\nyour own pleasure, and if so, what are you most likely to play?<\/p>\n<p>**************************<\/p>\n<p>Hi Laura,<\/p>\n<p>Slow blues improvisation, Bach or Classical improvisation. When I play for my own enjoyment I like to let my mind free and those three things do it for me. Sometimes I&#8217;ll try to find a series of notes or chords I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever played before, and see what happens. Sometimes I might play a slow blues for 45 minutes straight and get a &#8220;drone&#8221; going for my mind to escape, or sometimes switch between styles every ten seconds as a mental game.<\/p>\n<p>When I play for myself I&#8217;m more interested in shapes and mental imagery of the music, than I am of notes. When I play for other people it has to sound good to THEM, but when I play for myself, it only has to be interesting for me. So sometimes it becomes a math\/shape game for me, and probably only sounds good to me&#8230;..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laura says: You\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2ve played a very broad range of styles, with many other well-known artists, and in some world-reknown places. Do you, after so many years as a professional musician, still play for your own pleasure, and if so, what are you most likely to play? ************************** Hi Laura, Slow blues improvisation, Bach or Classical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3C0LX-2x","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}