{"id":222,"date":"2010-09-17T08:06:04","date_gmt":"2010-09-17T15:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ukeladies.com\/?p=222"},"modified":"2010-09-17T08:07:40","modified_gmt":"2010-09-17T15:07:40","slug":"muscle-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ukeladies.com\/?p=222","title":{"rendered":"Muscle Memory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Practicing really makes a difference.  Really.  Think back to when you first learned to drive and their were so many things to think about and coordinate. <\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve seen musicians play the piano with their eyes shut&#8211; that&#8217;s muscle memory.  It&#8217;s the same with athletics as well.  You repeat the process or the exercise and when the heat is on- your body responds &#8211; it&#8217;s like your body is in charge and not your brain.<\/p>\n<p>When I first learned guitar, some chords were so difficult for my untrained hands I literally used rubber bands to train my fingers to hold the chord (G chord structure on uke.)  <\/p>\n<p>Even practicing ten minutes a day can make a huge difference over the week.  Try it!  Don&#8217;t like to &#8220;practice&#8221; ?  call it &#8220;training&#8221;  !  Best Regards!  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Practicing really makes a difference. Really. Think back to when you first learned to drive and their were so many things to think about and coordinate. You&#8217;ve seen musicians play the piano with their eyes shut&#8211; that&#8217;s muscle memory. It&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukeladies.com\/?p=222\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukeladies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukeladies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukeladies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukeladies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukeladies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukeladies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukeladies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions\/225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukeladies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukeladies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukeladies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}