{"id":5532,"date":"2013-09-16T14:49:19","date_gmt":"2013-09-16T14:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/?p=5532"},"modified":"2013-09-16T14:50:26","modified_gmt":"2013-09-16T14:50:26","slug":"happy-b-day-bb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/happy-b-day-bb\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy B-Day BB!"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5533\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5533\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/220px-B.B._King_in_2009.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-5533\" alt=\"BB King Live In 2009 (Photo Courtesy Of Wikipedia)\" src=\"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/220px-B.B._King_in_2009-150x147.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"147\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5533\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">BB King Live In 2009 (Photo Courtesy Of Wikipedia)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>There&#8217;s no denying that BB King was a HUGE influence on me as a guitar player, but what a lot of people don&#8217;t realize is that the way BB King puts on a show was pretty much the ideal that I&#8217;ve always held for my own band.<\/p>\n<p>The first time I saw BB King was probably around 25 years ago and it absolutely blew my mind. And if you&#8217;ve never seen him, please take the first chance you get to do so. At 88, he&#8217;s still touring extensively (though he&#8217;s slowed down from approximately 250 dates a year) and Laura and I just saw him do his thing last year and it was definitely worth the trip.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a clip of BB doing his most famous classic, &#8220;The Thrill Is Gone.&#8221;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4fk2prKnYnI?version=3&amp;autohide=1&amp;rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;wmode=transparent\" height=\"360\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And to top it off, here&#8217;s a video I did on how to play some of the introductory lick using my &#8220;4 Note Solo&#8221; blues block&#8230;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BUfZnBPp2DU?version=3&amp;autohide=1&amp;rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;wmode=transparent\" height=\"360\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This style of soloing lends itself really well to the &#8220;4 Note Solo&#8221; approach. So if you&#8217;re one of those people who seem to have a hard time getting going with blues soloing, you&#8217;ll probably get a lot out of my <a href=\"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/get-soloing-without-scales\" target=\"_blank\">Soloing Without Scales<\/a> course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s no denying that BB King was a HUGE influence on me as a guitar player, but what a lot of people don&#8217;t realize is that the way BB King puts on a show was pretty much the ideal that I&#8217;ve always held for my own band. The first time I saw BB King was [&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\/5532"}],"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=5532"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5536,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5532\/revisions\/5536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}