{"id":13936,"date":"2015-11-23T19:29:02","date_gmt":"2015-11-24T00:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pianowizardacademy.com\/campus\/?p=13936"},"modified":"2015-11-23T19:29:20","modified_gmt":"2015-11-24T00:29:20","slug":"how-to-play-a-rubiks-cube-like-a-piano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pianowizardacademy.com\/campus\/blog\/music-theory\/how-to-play-a-rubiks-cube-like-a-piano\/","title":{"rendered":"How to play a Rubik\u2019s Cube like a piano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Group theory 101: How to play a Rubik\u2019s Cube like a piano - Michael Staff\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FW2Hvs5WaRY?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Mathematics explains the workings of the universe, from particle physics to engineering and economics. Math is even closely related to music, and their common ground has something to do with a Rubik's Cube puzzle. Michael Staff explains how group theory can teach us to play a Rubik\u2019s Cube like a piano.<\/p>\n<p>For the full lesson, visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ed.ted.com\/lessons\/group-theory-101-how-to-play-a-rubik-s-cube-like-a-piano-michael-staff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/ed.ted.com\/lessons\/group-theory-101-how-to-play-a-rubik-s-cube-like-a-piano-michael-staff<\/a><\/p>\n<p>At Piano Wizard Academy, while we don't teach music theory as part of our curriculum (because you don't need to know it to play piano) , we invite you to explore\u00a0and study\u00a0music theory. \u00a0First, it's a fascinating subject, deeply connected to\u00a0math and science. \u00a0Secondly, once you master the concepts, you can become quite an accomplished musician if you choose to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mathematics explains the workings of the universe, from particle physics to engineering and economics. Math is even closely related to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1027,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-13936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-music-theory","tag-piano","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pianowizardacademy.com\/campus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pianowizardacademy.com\/campus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pianowizardacademy.com\/campus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pianowizardacademy.com\/campus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1027"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pianowizardacademy.com\/campus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pianowizardacademy.com\/campus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pianowizardacademy.com\/campus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pianowizardacademy.com\/campus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pianowizardacademy.com\/campus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}