{"id":6511,"date":"2015-02-06T08:32:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-06T08:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/?p=6511"},"modified":"2015-02-06T08:32:53","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T08:32:53","slug":"bb-gladys-etta-chaka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/bb-gladys-etta-chaka\/","title":{"rendered":"BB, Gladys, Etta, Chaka&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found this video and, aside from the stellar singing by Gladys Knight and Etta James (I didn&#8217;t care much for Chaka Khan on this one,) I want you to watch BB King when he takes a solo at about 2 minutes in.<\/p>\n<p>The camera will be on him as he starts the solo and he&#8217;ll be sitting right in what I call the &#8220;house&#8221; pattern (I talk about this pattern in <a href=\"http:\/\/5easybluessolos.com\" target=\"_blank\">5 Easy Blues Solos<\/a> among others,) and he just kills it. He doesn&#8217;t leave that little 4-5 note area for the whole first half of the solo while the camera is on his hand.<\/p>\n<p>I love examples like this where there isn&#8217;t anything fancy or complex&#8230; it just sounds perfect and it&#8217;s as if there&#8217;s no way it could be better no matter what you think you might add.<\/p>\n<p>And enjoy this great tune:<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-plugin-new youtube\" style=\"max-width:100%; width:560px; height:auto; padding-top:0; padding-bottom:0; margin:0 auto;margin:0 auto; border: 0px solid #fff;margin-bottom: 20px;\"><div style=\"width:560px;height:0;  padding-bottom: 56.25%; padding-top:0;\"><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MoBlmp9cOL4?wmode=opaque&showinfo=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;controls=1&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;vq=&amp;rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found this video and, aside from the stellar singing by Gladys Knight and Etta James (I didn&#8217;t care much for Chaka Khan on this one,) I want you to watch BB King when he takes a solo at about 2 minutes in. The camera will be on him as he starts the solo and [&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":[40],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6511"}],"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=6511"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6513,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6511\/revisions\/6513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}