{"id":329,"date":"2014-11-15T09:30:16","date_gmt":"2014-11-15T14:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/josephrellis.com\/?p=329"},"modified":"2022-09-24T20:18:50","modified_gmt":"2022-09-25T00:18:50","slug":"instrumental-music-vs-vocal-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/josephrellis.com\/?p=329","title":{"rendered":"Instrumental Music vs Vocal Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/josephrellis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/VIDEO0064.mp4.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-334\" src=\"https:\/\/josephrellis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/VIDEO0064.mp4.gif\" alt=\"VIDEO0064.mp4\" width=\"374\" height=\"210\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1>It&#8217;s hard to be an instrumentalist<\/h1>\n<p>Nowadays, if you&#8217;re not a singer \/ songwriter or rapper, your music just won&#8217;t get many plays. Long gone are the days when you could turn on the radio and hear an instrumental song on the top 40. Oh, there are a few exceptions, I guess. If you are a fret board acrobat, you can still get a following. I&#8217;m no acrobat or shredder &#8211; just an instrumental songwriter.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I used to write songs with lyrics and I actually sang them. I can carry a tune and even used to sing in choir at church, but I don&#8217;t have a soloist&#8217;s voice. These days, I just prefer to express myself through my guitars. Maybe one day I&#8217;ll get inspired to write some more lyrics to one of my songs. Until then, I&#8217;ll let my guitars do my speaking. The question is: &#8220;Is anybody listening?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>-JRE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nowadays, if you&#8217;re not a singer \/ songwriter or rapper, your music just won&#8217;t get many plays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/josephrellis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/josephrellis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/josephrellis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josephrellis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josephrellis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=329"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/josephrellis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1383,"href":"https:\/\/josephrellis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions\/1383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/josephrellis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josephrellis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josephrellis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}