{"id":1934,"date":"2011-11-23T16:57:52","date_gmt":"2011-11-23T21:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/?p=1934"},"modified":"2018-09-08T21:41:23","modified_gmt":"2018-09-09T04:41:23","slug":"playing-the-blues-like-freddie-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/playing-the-blues-like-freddie-king\/","title":{"rendered":"Playing The Blues Like Freddie King"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Freddie King is one of the blues guitar greats that inspired generations of guitarists with his music.&nbsp; While there is no relation to Albert King or B.B. King, he is definitely considered to be a &#8220;King of the blues.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So I was going to do my own lesson for you on one of Freddie&#8217;s famous turnarounds, but then I found this one and decided there was no reason to fix what ain&#8217;t broke \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>This lesson comes to us from Guitar World and features Mr. Keith Wyatt from Musician&#8217;s Institute&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>My contribution is that I transcribed the lick for you below the lesson so you don&#8217;t have to figure it out for yourself \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-plugin-new youtube\" style=\"max-width:100%; width:640px; height:auto; padding-top:0; padding-bottom:0; margin:0 auto;margin:0 auto; border: 0px solid #fff;margin-bottom: 20px;\"><div style=\"width:640px;height:0;  padding-bottom: 56.25%; padding-top:0;\"><iframe width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Alasm-pdJEM?wmode=opaque&showinfo=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;controls=1&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;vq=&amp;rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6940\" src=\"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/freddie-final-four-lick.png\" alt=\"freddie-final-four-lick\" width=\"640\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/freddie-final-four-lick.png 640w, https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/freddie-final-four-lick-300x190.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And for your listening pleasure&#8230; a couple of my favorite tunes from Freddie:<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-plugin-new youtube\" style=\"max-width:100%; width:640px; height:auto; padding-top:0; padding-bottom:0; margin:0 auto;margin:0 auto; border: 0px solid #fff;margin-bottom: 20px;\"><div style=\"width:640px;height:0;  padding-bottom: 75%; padding-top:0;\"><iframe width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I8qRkRi65F0?wmode=opaque&showinfo=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;controls=1&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;vq=&amp;rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-plugin-new youtube\" style=\"max-width:100%; width:640px; height:auto; padding-top:0; padding-bottom:0; margin:0 auto;margin:0 auto; border: 0px solid #fff;margin-bottom: 20px;\"><div style=\"width:640px;height:0;  padding-bottom: 56.25%; padding-top:0;\"><iframe width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HXXkD7Dvq_E?wmode=opaque&showinfo=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;controls=1&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;vq=&amp;rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Freddie was a big influence on me and his song &#8220;Me And My Guitar&#8221; is still my closer for pretty much every show I do.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-plugin-new embed\" style=\"max-width:100%; width:640px; height:auto; padding-top:0; padding-bottom:0; margin:0 auto;margin:0 auto; border: 0px solid #fff;margin-bottom: 20px;\"><div style=\"width:640px;height:0;  padding-bottom: 56.25%; padding-top:0;\"><iframe width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Z2T2Ex8WoHA?rel=0&amp;start=3998\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freddie King is one of the blues guitar greats that inspired generations of guitarists with his music.&nbsp; While there is no relation to Albert King or B.B. King, he is definitely considered to be a &#8220;King of the blues.&#8221; So I was going to do my own lesson for you on one of Freddie&#8217;s famous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1934"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7373,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934\/revisions\/7373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}