{"id":237,"date":"2019-12-15T06:45:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-15T14:45:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-01-16T13:06:58","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T21:06:58","slug":"kaitlyns-christmas-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/kaitlyns-christmas-concert\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaitlyn\u2019s Christmas Concert"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After weeks of practicing, Kaitlyn&#8217;s big day is finally here!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you&#8217;ve been following along, you&#8217;ll know that she has been <a href=\"\/blog\/kaitlyn-learns-silent-night\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">learning and practicing &#8220;Silent Night&#8221;<\/a> so she can play it in front of people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, she&#8217;s ready, and I&#8217;m going to take you into my home to show you her first public performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"font-size:24px\"><strong>Why You Should Perform<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Playing in front of people is a big step in every piano player&#8217;s journey. Kaitlyn has only been learning for a few months, so it&#8217;s an extra big step for her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, there might be some small mistakes, but that&#8217;s all part of the learning process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Playing the piano in front of other people will make a big impact on your progress. It&#8217;s a fantastic way to motivate you to practice, help you overcome <a href=\"\/blog\/stage-fright-on-the-piano\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">stage fright<\/a> and really enjoy playing the piano.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It will also do a great job of highlighting the areas you still need to work on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"font-size:24px\"><strong>&#8230;and it&#8217;ll be worth it!<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Your friends and family WANT you to succeed, and everybody loves listening to music. So it&#8217;s a really safe place to practice without judgment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The smiles on everyone&#8217;s faces will be worth it, trust me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And the feeling of accomplishment is like nothing else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s still time to hold your own house concert for Christmas. But it doesn&#8217;t have to just be at Christmas time.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can do one at any time of the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Good luck, and have fun!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<iframe class=\"email-form-include-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/weekly-email\" frameborder=\"none\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See Kaitlyn&#8217;s 1st ever public performance! She&#8217;s been practicing and is ready to play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":1337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-musicianship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10632,"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions\/10632"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}