{"id":2470,"date":"2008-01-25T05:07:53","date_gmt":"2008-01-25T11:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conradaskland.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/question-about-playing-piano-on-broadway\/"},"modified":"2008-01-25T05:07:53","modified_gmt":"2008-01-25T11:07:53","slug":"question-about-playing-piano-on-broadway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/question-about-playing-piano-on-broadway\/","title":{"rendered":"Question about Playing Piano on Broadway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Hi Mr. Askland,<\/p>\n<p>My name is *name edited* and I am currently a  sophomore in high school and I&#8217;m studying to major in piano. My dream one day  is to play the piano\/conduct\/ and musical direct on Broadway. I was wondering  could you possibly give me any advice that could help me achieve my goal.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you so much<\/em><\/p>\n<p>*****************<\/p>\n<p>Good question.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Play your ass off.<\/li>\n<li>Be nice to people.<\/li>\n<li>Find people that are doing what you want to do, and find out how they got there.<\/li>\n<li>Take responsibility for things not going perfect and figure out how to keep it from happening again.<\/li>\n<li>Do not join a cover band, play private parties, weddings or casuals.<\/li>\n<li>Be nice to people.<\/li>\n<li>Play your ass off.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Pretty simple, huh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Mr. Askland, My name is *name edited* and I am currently a sophomore in high school and I&#8217;m studying to major in piano. My dream one day is to play the piano\/conduct\/ and musical direct on Broadway. I was wondering could you possibly give me any advice that could help me achieve my goal. [&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-DQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2470"}],"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=2470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}