{"id":182,"date":"2015-07-01T12:39:22","date_gmt":"2015-07-01T19:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jazzusa.biz\/?p=182"},"modified":"2012-07-02T13:09:30","modified_gmt":"2012-07-02T20:09:30","slug":"patrick-simard-p-s-i-groove-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/?p=182","title":{"rendered":"Patrick Simard &#8211; P.S. I Groove You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>17-year-old drummer, vibist, and composer Patrick Simard is recognized for his extraordinary proficiency, contagious passion, outstanding versatility, and surprising maturity in his playing and his writing.<\/p>\n<p>Raised in a small town east of Ottawa, Ontario, Patrick started playing the drumset at the age of 10. He studied a few years later with drumset teacher and author Chuck Burrows who firmly established his young protege with a solid musical and technical base, introducing him to the possibilities of all music genres, feeding his endless desire to learn.<\/p>\n<p>At 15, Patrick taught himself to play the vibraphone. He also began writing music. At 16, Patrick was playing in clubs, bars, hotels, and a variety of venues playing styles varying from folk, rock, funk, to jazz.<\/p>\n<p>After graduating high school with a 93% average, as well as many performance, composition, and academic awards. Now at 17, Patrick currently attends the Berklee College of Music in Boston on a scholarship, from where he will undoubtedly help shape the evolution of music in the years to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>17-year-old drummer, vibist, and composer Patrick Simard is recognized for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":599,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions\/599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}