{"id":402,"date":"2007-07-28T22:10:34","date_gmt":"2007-07-29T06:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2007\/07\/28\/this-is-your-brain-on-not-practicing\/"},"modified":"2013-02-07T18:13:12","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T02:13:12","slug":"this-is-your-brain-on-not-practicing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2007\/07\/28\/this-is-your-brain-on-not-practicing\/","title":{"rendered":"this is your brain on not practicing"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In a word: it hurts.\u00c2\u00a0 I pulled out the viola after a two-week hiatus and it really sucked!\u00c2\u00a0 The calluses went soft, I couldn’t shift accurately, my sound was like cotton stuffed up a skeleton’s ass – it wasn’t pretty.\u00c2\u00a0 I spent 45 painful minutes working through a couple major and minor scales and one etude (Rod\u00c3\u00a9 Caprice No. 2).\u00c2\u00a0 I know it will get better, but it serves me right for not keeping the fingers limber.<\/p>\n

On another note – Heather did her half marathon today!\u00c2\u00a0 In celebration I rode my bike downtown to meet her at the finish.\u00c2\u00a0 I told her that when she does the full marathon (Oct 7) I will ride downtown and back (it’s 9 miles each way, with the trip downtown almost all downhill, and the converse on the way back).\u00c2\u00a0 It’s the least I could do.\u00c2\u00a0 Next summer, I’ll do a century and she can carry my carcass home in the car afterwards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a word: it hurts.\u00c2\u00a0 I pulled out the viola after a two-week hiatus and it really sucked!\u00c2\u00a0 The calluses went soft, I couldn’t shift accurately, my sound was like cotton stuffed up a skeleton’s ass – it wasn’t pretty.\u00c2\u00a0 I spent 45 painful minutes working through a couple major and minor scales and one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[67,55,3656,3660],"class_list":["post-402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-orchestra-world","tag-classical","tag-orchestra","tag-the-orchestra-world","tag-viola"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-6u","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12604,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2013\/04\/19\/bso-marathoners-honor-marathon-victims\/","url_meta":{"origin":402,"position":0},"title":"bso marathoners honor marathon victims","author":"Charles Noble","date":"April 19, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"This is just a cool story - and you'll note that three of the musicians are violists, naturally! \u00a0","rel":"","context":"In "the orchestra world"","block_context":{"text":"the orchestra world","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/music\/the-orchestra-world\/"},"img":{"alt_text":" Photo: Stu Rosner\/Boston Symphony Orchestra","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/bso_musicians-500x282.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":48,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2006\/06\/22\/tower-theater\/","url_meta":{"origin":402,"position":1},"title":"tower theater","author":"Charles Noble","date":"June 22, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"tower theater, originally uploaded by nobleviola. 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