{"id":983,"date":"2025-12-13T14:50:51","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T14:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/?p=983"},"modified":"2025-12-13T14:50:51","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T14:50:51","slug":"milestone-65-bpm-left-hand-strokes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/13\/milestone-65-bpm-left-hand-strokes\/","title":{"rendered":"Milestone: 65 BPM Left Hand Strokes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today I practice my left hand finger strokes at 65 BPM.  My first bump in tempo since I started using a metronome to track it.  It&#8217;s on the edge of my ability.  And I do have to take breaks from fatigue.  I only did about 20 minutes today, mainly because I want to also work on other things during my practice.  Like push-pull.  I found a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vZN45JGZNgA\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vZN45JGZNgA\">good video teaching the push-pull technique<\/a>.  I started trying it last night.  I&#8217;m awkward and clumsy at it, but there are hints in my attempt that seems to indicate I will get it some day.  Pretty cool!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"771\" src=\"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/65bpm-1024x771.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-982\" srcset=\"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/65bpm-1024x771.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/65bpm-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/65bpm-768x578.jpg 768w, https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/65bpm-1536x1157.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/65bpm-2048x1542.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I practice my left hand finger strokes at 65 BPM. My first bump in tempo since I started using a metronome to track it. It&#8217;s on the edge of my ability. And I do have to take breaks from fatigue. I only did about 20 minutes today, mainly because I want to also work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":982,"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-983","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\/983","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=983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":984,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions\/984"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}