{"id":658,"date":"2009-10-21T09:43:47","date_gmt":"2009-10-21T00:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterdaley.net\/home\/?p=658"},"modified":"2015-04-14T00:22:28","modified_gmt":"2015-04-13T15:22:28","slug":"day-at-the-beach1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterdaley.net\/home\/day-at-the-beach1\/","title":{"rendered":"Day at the Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\">I have really fond memories of playing &#8220;Day at the Beach&#8221; from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/satriani.com\/\">Joe Satriani&#8217;s <\/a>1989 opus <a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/peterdaley-20\/detail\/B000002BWD\"><em>Flying in a Blue Dream<\/em><\/a>\u00a0at\u00a0my\u00a0high school&#8217;s musical variety night way back in 1990. Sadly, that was the end of my professional career because about a year later I developed carpal tunnel syndrome in my left hand and had to stop playing regularly.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carpal_tunnel_syndrome\">Carpal tunnel syndrome<\/a> is an injury due to the repetitive use of muscles in the hand. It is sadly quite common amongst musicians, particularly pianists and violinists.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t played very much since then, but I recently bought a new guitar to see if my hand was up to playing again. I&#8217;m too busy to play as much as I used to, so I think my hand will be fine. Fingers crossed.\u00a0 This was one the first pieces I wanted to revisit. Although I&#8217;m still pretty rusty in this video, I was surprised at how easily my fingers seemed to remember this piece.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\u00a0<embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ieA372LAy6I&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"640\" height=\"320\"><\/embed><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have really fond memories of playing &#8220;Day at the Beach&#8221; from\u00a0Joe Satriani&#8217;s 1989 opus Flying in a Blue Dream\u00a0at\u00a0my\u00a0high school&#8217;s musical variety night way back in 1990. Sadly, that &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11,22,44,24],"class_list":["post-658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-music","tag-11","tag-guitar","tag-joe-satriani","tag-peters-music-videos","post_format-post-format-video"],"views":7554,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterdaley.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterdaley.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterdaley.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterdaley.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterdaley.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/peterdaley.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":666,"href":"https:\/\/peterdaley.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions\/666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterdaley.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterdaley.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterdaley.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}