{"id":377,"date":"2010-08-20T12:22:47","date_gmt":"2010-08-20T02:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/denleymusic.com\/wordpress\/?p=377"},"modified":"2010-08-20T12:22:47","modified_gmt":"2010-08-20T02:22:47","slug":"distracting-students-with-devious-devices-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/distracting-students-with-devious-devices-d\/","title":{"rendered":"Distracting students with devious devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently purchased a new distracting device with the aim of using it to distract my students whilst they play a particular song, to see if they can keep playing without, well, getting distracted. \u00a0It&#8217;s an important performance technique to learn, don&#8217;t you think?<\/p>\n<p>The device is called a &#8220;Gotto-Go Machine&#8221; and cost me about $5 (Aus).<\/p>\n<p>I thought it would be especially good for those students of mine who have exams coming up very soon. \u00a0It might get a giggle or two out of them while we review their pieces, scales and\/or exercises.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Gotta-Go-Machine.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-378\" title=\"Gotta Go Machine\" src=\"http:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Gotta-Go-Machine.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Gotta-Go-Machine.jpg 160w, https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Gotta-Go-Machine-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\" \/><\/a>The distracting noises include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Other phone<\/li>\n<li>Door bell<\/li>\n<li>Baby crying<\/li>\n<li>Static<\/li>\n<li>Dog barking<\/li>\n<li>Traffic<\/li>\n<li>Siren<\/li>\n<li>Smoke Alarm<\/li>\n<li>Female calling<\/li>\n<li>Male calling<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently purchased a new distracting device with the aim of using it to distract my students whilst they play a particular song, to see if they can keep playing without, well, getting distracted. \u00a0It&#8217;s an important performance technique to learn, don&#8217;t you think? The device is called a &#8220;Gotto-Go Machine&#8221; and cost me about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}