{"id":6647,"date":"2015-07-10T22:50:02","date_gmt":"2015-07-11T05:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/?p=6647"},"modified":"2018-05-05T22:11:30","modified_gmt":"2018-05-06T05:11:30","slug":"three-times-a-fool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/three-times-a-fool\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Times A Fool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So there&#8217;s a great tune by Otis Rush called Three Times A Fool. I actually came across the tune because I heard Joe Bonamassa do it&#8230; but then I stumbled upon something kind of fun and it points out something cool for you.<\/p>\n<p>First, listen to the tune&#8230; or at least the first minute or 2 of it (though it&#8217;s a great song in it&#8217;s original form)<\/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\/cPIox8j_IO0?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>OK&#8230; now that you got that, check out Magic Slim &amp; The Teardrops doing &#8220;You Got To Pay&#8221;&#8230; you only need to hear the intro to get where we&#8217;re going with this (but the whole tune is cool)<\/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\/NFkaf3g9ziU?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>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Got that in your brain? Good&#8230; now listen to Joe Bonamassa do it&#8230; notice it&#8217;s basically the Magic Slim type of groove and intro (even plays the same lick from the top) with the melody and lyrics from Otis Rush. Joe added the breaks, which is a nice addition, but this is just such a great example of how you can &#8220;cut and paste&#8221; a blues tune from so many different pieces.<\/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\/Ry3kvenp-oU?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>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Admittedly, that idea isn&#8217;t Magic Slim&#8217;s either&#8230; he got it from Elmore James fair and square. So it&#8217;s been around a while \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I always like to say that the blues is often nothing more than deciding which of the many &#8220;standard&#8221; ideas you want to put together to form something new and in your own voice. Joe seems to have done it really well here and it&#8217;s unusual to be able to find the original sources of a tune like this.<\/p>\n<p>So I hope you enjoy the listening and maybe think about how you could take a song you already know and play one way, but then turn it into another song by changing out the lyrics and melody and maybe adding in some breaks or something you know from a different song.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So there&#8217;s a great tune by Otis Rush called Three Times A Fool. I actually came across the tune because I heard Joe Bonamassa do it&#8230; but then I stumbled upon something kind of fun and it points out something cool for you. First, listen to the tune&#8230; or at least the first minute or [&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\/6647"}],"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=6647"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7316,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6647\/revisions\/7316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}