{"id":1041,"date":"2025-01-16T01:03:42","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T01:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/?p=1041"},"modified":"2025-01-16T01:03:42","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T01:03:42","slug":"give-yourself-an-assignment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/?p=1041","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Give Yourself an Assignment&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nathan talks about a period of time where he was trying to increase his following on Instagram, so he posted a synth improvisation every day. The Instagram account was a mixed success, but he was very happy with the amount of productivity that came from the assignment. He put together his album &#8220;Signals&#8221; based on the best of the improv tracks.<\/p>\n<p>He says that it&#8217;s easy to get so into watching tutorial videos (or shopping for plug-ins? \ud83d\ude09 that you aren&#8217;t actually making music. His concluding remarks were &#8220;Give yourself an assignment; see it through to the end; do that over and over&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How to stop watching tutorials and start making music (a tutorial)\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XHhaEW28Xo4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nathan talks about a period of time where he was trying to increase his following on Instagram, so he posted a synth improvisation every day. The Instagram account was a mixed success, but he was very happy with the amount &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/?p=1041\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1042,"href":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041\/revisions\/1042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}