{"id":6522,"date":"2015-02-18T07:36:51","date_gmt":"2015-02-18T07:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/?p=6522"},"modified":"2015-02-18T07:37:49","modified_gmt":"2015-02-18T07:37:49","slug":"what-is-the-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/what-is-the-blues\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is The Blues?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I get this question a lot&#8230; what is the blues?<\/p>\n<p>What is it about some music that makes it sound &#8220;bluesy&#8221; while other music does not?<\/p>\n<p>And why is it that we smear minor 3rds over major chords?<\/p>\n<p>Turns out it was easier to show this in a video than to explain it so here you go:<\/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\/IlRsxJvPXpg?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<p>Need to download this? <a href=\"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/video\/what-makes-blues.mp4\" target=\"_blank\">MP4<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/video\/what-makes-blues.wmv\" target=\"_blank\">WMV<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I get this question a lot&#8230; what is the blues? What is it about some music that makes it sound &#8220;bluesy&#8221; while other music does not? And why is it that we smear minor 3rds over major chords? Turns out it was easier to show this in a video than to explain it so here [&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":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6522"}],"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=6522"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6524,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6522\/revisions\/6524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}