{"id":6416,"date":"2014-11-16T08:33:07","date_gmt":"2014-11-16T08:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/?p=6416"},"modified":"2024-04-17T11:21:04","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T18:21:04","slug":"the-sky-is-tore-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/the-sky-is-tore-down\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sky Is Tore Down&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So you&#8217;re probably tired of me talking about blues rhythm elements as puzzle pieces&#8230; but in case you&#8217;ve missed my rants on the subject before check this out&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s Albert King doing &#8220;The Sky Is Crying.&#8221; A famous Elmore James tune and this is a really awesome version of it.<\/p>\n<p>HERE&#8217;S THE THING &#8211; &nbsp;listen very carefully at 1:48 into the video, right as he starts &#8220;I saw my baby early one morning&#8221; verse and see if you recognize what he plays over the I and IV chords there:<\/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\/Rp8lnB_Wxgk?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>Now granted, it&#8217;s a LOT slower&#8230; but it&#8217;s none other than the famous<a href=\"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/the-tore-down-rhythm\"> &#8220;Tore Down&#8221; Rhythm<\/a> that you&#8217;ve likely learned before, and is in your <a href=\"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/get-blues-guitar-unleashed\">Blues Guitar Unleashed<\/a> course (along with some variations).<\/p>\n<p>Plus, if you listen to a lot of the licks and phrases that are used either in the fills between the vocals, or in the solos, you&#8217;ll hear <a href=\"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/the-albert-king-lick\/\">The Albert King Lick<\/a>, or some variation of it, and you&#8217;ll hear a ton of other licks found in the <a href=\"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/get-how-to-solo-like-albert-king\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How To Solo Like Albert King<\/a> courses.<\/p>\n<p>You might have to listen a few times to hear all the things, but that&#8217;s the point. Take your time with it and feel free to come back often \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m really into his stuff right now and I hope you love it too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So you&#8217;re probably tired of me talking about blues rhythm elements as puzzle pieces&#8230; but in case you&#8217;ve missed my rants on the subject before check this out&#8230; It&#8217;s Albert King doing &#8220;The Sky Is Crying.&#8221; A famous Elmore James tune and this is a really awesome version of it. HERE&#8217;S THE THING &#8211; &nbsp;listen [&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":[39,10,40],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6416"}],"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=6416"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8554,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6416\/revisions\/8554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}