{"id":938,"date":"2025-12-02T22:40:48","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T22:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/?p=938"},"modified":"2025-12-03T00:30:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T00:30:17","slug":"milestone-20-hours-of-music-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/02\/milestone-20-hours-of-music-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"Milestone: 20 Hours of Music Practice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Just hit 20 hours of music practice since I committed to at least one hour of practice per day. So, 20 days ago. Actually less because I couple of days I practiced more (moar!) than 1 hour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The vast majority of the practice time as been spent on just left hand single strokes.  I&#8217;m up to 140,000 of them.  Kinda nutty if you ask me which you didn&#8217;t so I&#8217;m going to tell you anyways:  kinda nutty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyways.  I&#8217;m the type of person that gets hare-brained ideas about wanting to do new things so it&#8217;s not common for me to stick with something for 20 days.  That&#8217;s pretty remarkable (and kinda nutty).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"870\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/d20-870x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-940\" srcset=\"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/d20-870x1024.jpg 870w, https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/d20-255x300.jpg 255w, https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/d20-768x904.jpg 768w, https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/d20-1304x1536.jpg 1304w, https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/d20.jpg 1452w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 870px) 100vw, 870px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just hit 20 hours of music practice since I committed to at least one hour of practice per day. So, 20 days ago. Actually less because I couple of days I practiced more (moar!) than 1 hour. The vast majority of the practice time as been spent on just left hand single strokes. I&#8217;m up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":940,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drumming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=938"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":945,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938\/revisions\/945"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}