{"id":6551,"date":"2015-03-25T19:28:39","date_gmt":"2015-03-26T02:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/?p=6551"},"modified":"2015-03-25T20:01:12","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T03:01:12","slug":"playing-in-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/playing-in-position\/","title":{"rendered":"Playing In Position"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this lesson we&#8217;ll look at a short piece of music I put together from a classical study that is specifically designed to work on your ability to play in position&#8230; that means keeping your hand in one place, close to the fretboard, so you don&#8217;t have to watch what your fingers are doing.<\/p>\n<p>When you&#8217;re learning something new, this skill will improve your results tremendously as you will learn how to not feel like you have to look at your hands all the time.<\/p>\n<p>You can <a href=\"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/pdf\/playing-in-position-lesson.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">download the music first<\/a>, then watch the video:<\/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\/IXT4xtYJlzQ?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>And download the video here (might have to right click) &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/video\/playing-in-position-lesson.mp4\" target=\"_blank\">MP4<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/video\/playing-in-position-lesson.wmv\" target=\"_blank\">WMV<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this lesson we&#8217;ll look at a short piece of music I put together from a classical study that is specifically designed to work on your ability to play in position&#8230; that means keeping your hand in one place, close to the fretboard, so you don&#8217;t have to watch what your fingers are doing. When [&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\/6551"}],"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=6551"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6554,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6551\/revisions\/6554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}