{"id":6400,"date":"2014-11-01T06:11:54","date_gmt":"2014-11-01T06:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/?p=6400"},"modified":"2020-03-29T21:48:43","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T04:48:43","slug":"target-tones-for-the-iv-chord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/target-tones-for-the-iv-chord\/","title":{"rendered":"Target Tones For The IV Chord"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yup&#8230; I know it&#8217;s a really compelling title today&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So let me tell you why you (should) care about today&#8217;s lesson&#8230; because this is the stuff that makes amazing players sound amazing and just OK players sound &#8211; just OK.<\/p>\n<p>When you write a perfect essay it leads your reader with words exactly where you want them to go&#8230; and they follow along just as you intend and by the end have digested your story just as you intended.<\/p>\n<p>Well when you construct a perfect solo it leads your listener through the chord changes and exactly where you want them to go.<\/p>\n<p>And the best place to start with this is in bar 5 of the 12 bar blues pattern where it goes from the I chord to the IV chord.<\/p>\n<p>So today I&#8217;ll show you how you can create some signature licks of your very own that lead your listener to the IV chord just like you want.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-plugin-new youtube\" style=\"max-width:100%; width:853px; height:auto; padding-top:0; padding-bottom:0; margin:0 auto;margin:0 auto; border: 0px solid #fff;margin-bottom: 20px;\"><div style=\"width:853px;height:0;  padding-bottom: 56.271981242673%; padding-top:0;\"><iframe width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u3q6Hbtr66M?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>And here&#8217;s the lick I walked through at the end if you want to play it exactly:<\/p>\n\n                <div class=\"image-caption\" style='width:1302px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:px;margin-right:auto;margin-left:auto;'><img alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/target-tones-on-blog.png\"  border=\"0\" class=\"full-width\" \/><\/div>\n            \n<p>Try putting together some of your own licks and write them down, record them, do SOMETHING so you don't forget them. This is&nbsp;one way&nbsp;you build vocabulary and have more cool things to say at your next jam.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yup&#8230; I know it&#8217;s a really compelling title today&#8230; So let me tell you why you (should) care about today&#8217;s lesson&#8230; because this is the stuff that makes amazing players sound amazing and just OK players sound &#8211; just OK. When you write a perfect essay it leads your reader with words exactly where you [&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\/6400"}],"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=6400"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7974,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6400\/revisions\/7974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}