{"id":5893,"date":"2021-05-01T11:50:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-01T18:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bandworld.org\/magazine\/?p=5893"},"modified":"2025-03-21T12:38:55","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T19:38:55","slug":"terry-austins-top-ten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bandworld.org\/magazine\/index.php\/terry-austins-top-ten\/","title":{"rendered":"TERRY AUSTIN\u2019S TOP TEN"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\"><em>Things I say in rehearsal<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n<ol>\n<li>If you don\u2019t give your best effort now, you will not be able to when you become a pro. Be professional today.<\/li>\n<li>Your instrument is just equipment. Music comes from the heart and the brain. Don\u2019t expect your instrument to do something you are feeling and thinking.<\/li>\n<li>Every time you play, whether it is a rehearsal or performance, someone may be hearing you for the first time. What first impression do you want to make?<\/li>\n<li>Playing correct notes and rhythms is not the goal. It is the starting point.<\/li>\n<li>Use more air to play longer phrases, not louder notes.<\/li>\n<li>You cannot simultaneously talk and listen. Don\u2019t talk.<\/li>\n<li>Melody is the most important element. It is your<br>responsibility to ensure the audience can hear it clearly.<\/li>\n<li>If every part is marked forte, everyone cannot play forte.<\/li>\n<li>Practice does not make perfect. Practice makes better.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size\">10.  <strong>You do not practice a part to learn it.        <br>You learn it and then practice to master it.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things I say in rehearsal If you don\u2019t give your best effort now, you will not be able to when you become a pro. Be professional today. Your instrument is just equipment. Music comes from the heart and the brain. Don\u2019t expect your instrument to do something you are feeling and thinking. Every time you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":5848,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[244,2],"tags":[528,527,246,529,663],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bandworld.org\/magazine\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5893"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bandworld.org\/magazine\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bandworld.org\/magazine\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bandworld.org\/magazine\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/85"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bandworld.org\/magazine\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5893"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bandworld.org\/magazine\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5897,"href":"https:\/\/bandworld.org\/magazine\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5893\/revisions\/5897"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bandworld.org\/magazine\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bandworld.org\/magazine\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bandworld.org\/magazine\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bandworld.org\/magazine\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}