{"id":3880,"date":"2012-06-18T19:00:06","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T00:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/?p=3880"},"modified":"2012-06-18T19:00:06","modified_gmt":"2012-06-19T00:00:06","slug":"british-blues-guitarist-matt-schofield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/british-blues-guitarist-matt-schofield\/","title":{"rendered":"British Blues Guitarist, Matt Schofield"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3882\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3882\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/british-blues-guitarist-matt-schofield\/nov_sh_elecguitar1-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3882\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-3882\" title=\"nov_sh_elecguitar1\" src=\"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/nov_sh_elecguitar1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3882\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matt Schofield is one of the next big blues guitarists to hit the scene. Look for his trio in a town near you!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>One of the blues guitarists that I&#8217;ve definitely been digging lately is Matt Schofield.\u00a0 Schofield brings together his influences in the blues, jazz, and rock to create his own distinct sound.\u00a0 He&#8217;s also a big student of music who has listened to all the greats and built his own style from them in his blues trio.\u00a0 Schofield plays with a trio, accompanied by a drummer and Hammond Organ player.\u00a0 I found a few videos that feature performances with the Matt Schofield trio, a cool little interview with him, and a 12 bar blues guitar lesson in which he explains some of the &#8220;color chords&#8221; he uses in the 12 bar form.\u00a0 I hope you dig Matt Schofield as much as I do!<\/p>\n<p>The first video features a little taste of the Matt Schofield trio in all their glory.\u00a0 They perform their song, &#8220;Uncle Junior,&#8221; at the Belgium Rhythm &amp; Blues Festival in 2006.\u00a0 Check it out at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Yfi9fKpm3yU\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Yfi9fKpm3yU<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[youtube_sc url=&#8221;http:\/\/youtu.be\/Yfi9fKpm3yU&#8221; width=&#8221;420&#8243; rel=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In the next video, Matt Schofield teaches a 12 bar blues guitar lesson in which he details some &#8220;color chords&#8221; to embellish the original form.\u00a0 Check out this more &#8220;jazzy&#8221; approach to the 12 bar blues form at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qut0dKGoZu0&amp;feature=related\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qut0dKGoZu0&amp;feature=related<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[youtube_sc url=&#8221;http:\/\/youtu.be\/qut0dKGoZu0&#8243; width=&#8221;420&#8243; rel=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The last video features a mixture of performances from the Matt Schofield Band and some interview snippets with Schofield about his music experiences.\u00a0 Check it out at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RavBHIUR7tQ\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RavBHIUR7tQ<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[youtube_sc url=&#8221;http:\/\/youtu.be\/RavBHIUR7tQ&#8221; width=&#8221;420&#8243; rel=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Matt Schofield is definitely a modern blues cat that I&#8217;ve been digging a lot lately, and I hope you have enjoyed him too.\u00a0 There&#8217;s plenty more to check out online from Matt so I encourage you not to stop here with this post but check out all that he has to offer.\u00a0 Look for Matt Schofield in a town near you!<\/p>\n<p>Thanks,<\/p>\n<p>Griff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the blues guitarists that I&#8217;ve definitely been digging lately is Matt Schofield.\u00a0 Schofield brings together his influences in the blues, jazz, and rock to create his own distinct sound.\u00a0 He&#8217;s also a big student of music who has listened to all the greats and built his own style from them in his blues [&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],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3880"}],"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=3880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}