{"id":6607,"date":"2015-05-03T22:39:54","date_gmt":"2015-05-04T05:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/?p=6607"},"modified":"2015-05-03T22:39:54","modified_gmt":"2015-05-04T05:39:54","slug":"adding-tweedlies-to-simple-licks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/adding-tweedlies-to-simple-licks\/","title":{"rendered":"Adding Tweedlies To Simple Licks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been spending a lot of time lately working with people on improvising in live clinics and private lessons&#8230; and I hear a lot of the same thing.<\/p>\n<p>I call it &#8220;eighth-note-itis&#8221; and it&#8217;s the sound of notes just flowing by randomly at an eighth note pace.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got nothing against eighth notes, they are the foundation of most of what we do, but at points you have to vary things up.<\/p>\n<p>One of the easiest and quickest ways to add some spice to your soloing is using what I call <a href=\"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/blues-tricks-and-tweedlies\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tweedlies <\/a>(no, that&#8217;s not the official term and that&#8217;s why I like it \ud83d\ude42<\/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\/P68tjDoNVXo?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>Download this video &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/video\/PuttingInTweedlies.mp4\" target=\"_blank\">MP4<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/video\/PuttingInTweedlies.wmv\" target=\"_blank\">WMV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I tabbed out the intro solo I played for you as well <a href=\"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/pdf\/PuttingInTweedlies.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Try it out and let me know how it goes below&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been spending a lot of time lately working with people on improvising in live clinics and private lessons&#8230; and I hear a lot of the same thing. I call it &#8220;eighth-note-itis&#8221; and it&#8217;s the sound of notes just flowing by randomly at an eighth note pace. I&#8217;ve got nothing against eighth notes, they are [&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\/6607"}],"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=6607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6608,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6607\/revisions\/6608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}