{"id":551,"date":"2013-08-12T22:21:07","date_gmt":"2013-08-12T12:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/?p=551"},"modified":"2016-02-18T11:52:16","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T02:22:16","slug":"musical-monday-rocket-jumping-our-way-across-the-bass-keyboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/musical-monday-rocket-jumping-our-way-across-the-bass-keyboard\/","title":{"rendered":"Musical Monday: Rocket Jumping our way across the bass keyboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I shared with you the sheet music for the <a title=\"Sheet Music Sunday: Rocket Jump Waltz\" href=\"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/sheet-music-sunday-rocket-jump-waltz\/\">Rocket Jump Waltz<\/a>. It&#8217;s a fun little piece that isn&#8217;t at all like a waltz.<\/p>\n<p>Today I&#8217;ve got my attempt at playing it!<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-551-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Rocket-Jump-Waltz.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Rocket-Jump-Waltz.mp3\">https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Rocket-Jump-Waltz.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>It&#8217;s not perfect&#8230; I did promise that my recordings this month would be a bit choppy. The most distracting part for me is the C major to B minor alternation that means I need to do some leaps of faith across the bass buttons, which look something like this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/rocketJumps.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-553\" alt=\"rocketJumps\" src=\"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/rocketJumps-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/rocketJumps-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/rocketJumps.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Currently I&#8217;m doing that big jump between B and C marked by the arrows. There&#8217;s a B counterbass which I might be able to transition through, but I haven&#8217;t quite worked out how to use it yet. I think the key is just more practice. Also A minor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I shared with you the sheet music for the Rocket Jump Waltz. It&#8217;s a fun little piece that isn&#8217;t at all like a waltz. Today I&#8217;ve got my attempt at playing it! It&#8217;s not perfect&#8230; I did promise that my recordings this month would be a bit choppy. The most distracting part for me &#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/musical-monday-rocket-jumping-our-way-across-the-bass-keyboard\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[102,34],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-admin","4":"post-551","6":"format-standard","7":"category-music","8":"post_tag-accordion","9":"post_tag-video-games"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}