{"id":1169,"date":"2010-06-23T23:13:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-23T23:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/06\/toto-africa-keyboard-solo\/"},"modified":"2010-06-23T23:13:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-23T23:13:00","slug":"toto-africa-keyboard-solo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/06\/toto-africa-keyboard-solo.html","title":{"rendered":"Toto Africa Keyboard Solo"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>In attempts to relax between working on project budget revisions and other stressful activities, I\u2019ve been working on learning the solos to a couple of pop songs. One is Bruce Hornsby\u2019s \u201cThe Way It Is\u201d and the other is \u201cAfrica\u201d by Toto. <a href=\"http:\/\/blue.butler.edu\/~jfmcgrat\/mp3\/Africa%20solo.mp3\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Here\u2019s a first attempt at recording myself playing the keyboard solo<\/a>. It is still pretty rough, as I have not been working on it for very long (yet).<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-4054276798718137348?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In attempts to relax between working on project budget revisions and other stressful activities, I\u2019ve been working on learning the solos to a couple of pop songs. One is Bruce Hornsby\u2019s \u201cThe Way It Is\u201d and the other is \u201cAfrica\u201d by Toto. Here\u2019s a first attempt at recording myself playing the keyboard solo. It is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Toto Africa Keyboard Solo<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In attempts to relax between working on project budget revisions and other stressful activities, I&#039;ve been working on learning the solos to a couple of\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/06\/toto-africa-keyboard-solo.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Toto Africa Keyboard Solo\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In attempts to relax between working on project budget revisions and other stressful activities, I&#039;ve been working on learning the solos to a couple of\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/06\/toto-africa-keyboard-solo.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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