{"id":6540,"date":"2015-03-11T01:00:13","date_gmt":"2015-03-11T08:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/?p=6540"},"modified":"2015-03-10T16:00:34","modified_gmt":"2015-03-10T23:00:34","slug":"fun-with-4-against-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/fun-with-4-against-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun With 4 Against 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like many of you I&#8217;m a big ZZ Top fan&#8230; and when I heard Billy Gibbons do &#8220;Thunderbird&#8221; (a song with an<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fandango!#.22Thunderbird.22\" target=\"_blank\"> interesting and sordid history<\/a>) on &#8220;Live At Daryl&#8217;s House&#8221; with such a great band and a great sound, I was hooked.<\/p>\n<p>First, here&#8217;s the tune for your listening pleasure&#8230; notice what Billy does at the 3:06 mark, it&#8217;s the same lick over and over for 12 bars.<\/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\/l2Pp8NzuGYE?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>And for today&#8217;s video, here&#8217;s how to play that particular idea and why it sounds so darn cool&#8230;<\/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\/LOiTxgOAqps?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>The lick, written out, looks something like this:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6541\" src=\"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/thunderbird-lick.png\" alt=\"thunderbird lick\" width=\"550\" height=\"105\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/thunderbird-lick.png 653w, https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/thunderbird-lick-300x57.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Need to download my video? Right click &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/video\/4-against-3-lick.mp4\" target=\"_blank\">MP4<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/video\/4-against-3-lick.wmv\" target=\"_blank\">WMV<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like many of you I&#8217;m a big ZZ Top fan&#8230; and when I heard Billy Gibbons do &#8220;Thunderbird&#8221; (a song with an interesting and sordid history) on &#8220;Live At Daryl&#8217;s House&#8221; with such a great band and a great sound, I was hooked. First, here&#8217;s the tune for your listening pleasure&#8230; notice what Billy does [&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\/6540"}],"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=6540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6542,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6540\/revisions\/6542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}