{"id":267,"date":"2008-06-20T17:34:54","date_gmt":"2008-06-20T17:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vhkssinging.wordpress.com\/?p=267"},"modified":"2015-10-07T11:26:19","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T11:26:19","slug":"grade-1-piano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2008\/06\/20\/grade-1-piano\/","title":{"rendered":"grade 1 piano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My daughter did Grade 1 piano about a week ago.  I cast my mind back to dim memories when I was doing the same exam and tried to compare the experiences.  For one thing, the Associated Board has livened up the covers of its exam books a bit from the dreary monochrome grey and brown ones I remember.  Within, the pieces are not as easy as I&#8217;d expected and you now do one in a jazzier style (at least my daughter did).  I think this is a good thing as I didn&#8217;t really get to grips with jazz rhythms at that stage and still find them a challenge at times (for example in the Birthday Madrigals by Rutter a couple of years ago).  They are definitely a part of being musically literate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My daughter did Grade 1 piano about a week ago. I cast my mind back to dim memories when I was doing the same exam and tried to compare the experiences. For one thing, the Associated Board has livened up &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2008\/06\/20\/grade-1-piano\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3735,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions\/3735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}