{"id":6311,"date":"2014-07-23T10:14:16","date_gmt":"2014-07-23T10:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/?p=6311"},"modified":"2014-07-23T20:03:49","modified_gmt":"2014-07-23T20:03:49","slug":"country-blues-8-bar-comping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/country-blues-8-bar-comping\/","title":{"rendered":"Country Blues 8 Bar Comping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6312\" alt=\"bgu-live-2012-tele\" src=\"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/bgu-live-2012-tele.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/>So by an interesting turn of events, and the generosity of a good friend, this one-of-a-kind Telecaster that was made for the BGU Live event back in 2012 has found it&#8217;s way back to me.<\/p>\n<p>And well, when I get a sweet Tele in my hands it&#8217;s hard not to lean a little more country than rock-n-roll.<\/p>\n<p>This video is all about comping (accompanying) meaning playing some chords in a rhythmic fashion that gives a certain groove or feel. It&#8217;s an art unto itself but it doesn&#8217;t have to be super difficult.<\/p>\n<p>In this video it will start off simple but I&#8217;ll make it a bit more complex towards the end. And you&#8217;ll see by the end just how crazy this sort of thing can get if you really get the hang of it.<\/p>\n<p>So enjoy and have fun&#8230; I sure did!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/s1f3dVgCrRM?rel=0\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Download this video &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/video\/country-blues-8-bar-comping.mp4\">MP4 <\/a>| <a href=\"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/video\/country-blues-8-bar-comping.wmv\">WMV <\/a>(right click for the one you want.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So by an interesting turn of events, and the generosity of a good friend, this one-of-a-kind Telecaster that was made for the BGU Live event back in 2012 has found it&#8217;s way back to me. And well, when I get a sweet Tele in my hands it&#8217;s hard not to lean a little more country [&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":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6311"}],"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=6311"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6314,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6311\/revisions\/6314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}