{"id":10212,"date":"2013-07-10T09:43:01","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T14:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/?p=10212"},"modified":"2019-08-12T13:14:23","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T17:14:23","slug":"keeping-a-beat-at-9-months-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/keeping-a-beat-at-9-months-old\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping a Beat at 9 Months Old&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found this video the other day while going through all my home movies I&#8217;ve made.\u00a0 I had forgotten all about it but when I saw it, it brought a smile to my face.\u00a0 As a musician and father, I was always looking for ways where I could practice and watch my kids at the same time&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.\u00a0 I discovered that by putting my kids in a bouncy seat and playing tunes, I could practice while they worked on their ability to keep a beat.\u00a0 It would work well for about 30 minutes and then they would get tired and start crying.\u00a0 Later I&#8217;ll post the odd meter videos where Melissa is laying down some crazy 7\/8, 11\/8 and 19\/16 time signatures.\u00a0\u00a0 A couple of times in this video you can see her slow down because she&#8217;s bored with the everyday 4\/4 time we are playing Dexterity in.\u00a0 This was filmed 10 years ago and today I can honestly say that all three of my girls have excellent timing and dance skills.\u00a0\u00a0 I like to think they owe it all to their father&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GQb5Tfmnv68\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found this video the other day while going through all my home movies I&#8217;ve made.\u00a0 I had forgotten all about it but when I saw it, it brought a smile to my face.\u00a0 As a musician and father, I was always looking for ways where I could practice and watch my kids at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10212","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-jazz-education","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}