{"id":6757,"date":"2015-11-16T19:01:43","date_gmt":"2015-11-17T03:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/?p=6757"},"modified":"2015-11-16T19:01:43","modified_gmt":"2015-11-17T03:01:43","slug":"check-out-teach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/check-out-teach\/","title":{"rendered":"Check Out &#8220;Teach&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I try not to toot my own horn very often\u00a0(after all you&#8217;re here to learn to play guitar and it&#8217;s not about me&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>But when I was learning I always enjoyed and got a lot out of watching my teacher perform, and I&#8217;ve come to believe that having a teacher that actually gets out and performs and does more than teach is important.<\/p>\n<p>So the other day my band and I entered and performed at the local International Blues Competition near here in Long Beach&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>We didn&#8217;t win (we never do&#8230; and that&#8217;s a whole different conversation) but we had fun and I think you&#8217;ll get a kick out of it.<\/p>\n<p>In case you&#8217;re interested, I wrote all 3 tunes. The first is a shuffle in F with some fairly intricate riffs, and the 2nd tune is in A minor while the last one is in D. If you want to noodle along I encourage it \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>And thanks to MikeSRC for the footage!<\/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\/SpaeVwDjQyQ?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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I try not to toot my own horn very often\u00a0(after all you&#8217;re here to learn to play guitar and it&#8217;s not about me&#8230;) But when I was learning I always enjoyed and got a lot out of watching my teacher perform, and I&#8217;ve come to believe that having a teacher that actually gets out and [&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":[39,40],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6757"}],"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=6757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6758,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6757\/revisions\/6758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}