{"id":8319,"date":"2024-04-26T11:25:24","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T16:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/?p=8319"},"modified":"2024-04-26T11:25:24","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T16:25:24","slug":"maestro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/26\/maestro\/","title":{"rendered":"Maestro"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Griffin has been taking music lessons for a few years\u2014first piano and then trombone. He plays in the jazz band at school and is improving rapidly. Along the way, he has become interested in <em>composing<\/em> music. With easy, free electronic tools like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beepbox.co\/\">BeepBox<\/a>, he is able to develop electronic compositions pretty easily. Sarah and I have been quite impressed with what he&#8217;s been working on. This summer, he&#8217;s hoping to enroll in a music theory class at the <a href=\"https:\/\/thespcm.org\/\">Saint Paul Conservatory of Music<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is his most recent composition, completed this morning:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/The-Song-of-the-Ages.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Song of the Ages<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And here are links to a bunch of other pieces he&#8217;s been working on over the past few months, at various levels of completion. Some of them are just for fun. Others were composed to fill particular needs in his video game coding projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Star_Dance.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Star Dance<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/A-CHARACTER-THEME.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A Character Theme<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Ambience_Unfinished.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Ambience Unfinished<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/BeepBox-Song-2.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">BeepBox Song<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Drippity-Split.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Drippity Split<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/FrogSong.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Frog Song<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Fun-Song-1.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Fun Song<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GAMEOVER.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Game Over<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Little_Songify.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Little Songify<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Quite_Unfinished.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Quite Unfinished<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/The-Game-Music-1.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Game Music<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/THEME_FOR_BOB.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Theme for Bob<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Unfinished_Forever.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Unfinished Forever<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Untitled-2.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Untitled<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Valley-of-the-Midnight-Dancers.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Valley of the Midnight Dancers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Griffin has been taking music lessons for a few years\u2014first piano and then trombone. He plays in the jazz band at school and is improving rapidly. Along the way, he has become interested in composing music. With easy, free electronic tools like BeepBox, he is able to develop electronic compositions pretty easily. Sarah and I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/26\/maestro\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Maestro<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[79,69],"class_list":["post-8319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-griffin","tag-griffin","tag-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8336,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8319\/revisions\/8336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}