{"id":6759,"date":"2015-11-17T21:27:13","date_gmt":"2015-11-18T05:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/?p=6759"},"modified":"2015-11-17T21:33:54","modified_gmt":"2015-11-18T05:33:54","slug":"billy-gibbons-teaches-the-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/billy-gibbons-teaches-the-blues\/","title":{"rendered":"Billy Gibbons Teaches The Blues&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s hard not to love Billy Gibbons&#8217; playing&#8230; it just oozes so much more cool than most of us will ever have \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Well several years back I found a video on YouTube of Billy teaching some of his influences. Clearly it&#8217;s a video taken from some sort of instructional thing from long ago &#8211; and I&#8217;ve always figured it would disappear (because of copyright violations.)<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s been there for years and has a ton of views and doesn&#8217;t appear to be going anywhere, so I think I can share it here and add in my 2 cents &#8211; I transcribed most of the licks in it for you.<\/p>\n<p>In particular you might notice his take on <a href=\"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/acoustic-blues-guitar-elmore-james-style-lick\/\" target=\"_blank\">Elmore James<\/a> is very similar to mine from a little while ago&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Obviously this isn&#8217;t broken down note for note the way I would do it, but with the TAB handy you might be able to pick out a few fun nuggets.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the video, the download of the TAB is underneath.<\/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\/XHtPYZRVeGI?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><a href=\"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/pdf\/BillyGibbonsYoutubeLesson.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Click Here For The TAB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll have to watch carefully on a lot of these licks &#8211; he&#8217;s using his pick for the lower notes and 2 or 3 fingers from his right hand for the upper notes. That&#8217;s a common thing in blues and it&#8217;s a good thing to have in your bag of tricks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s hard not to love Billy Gibbons&#8217; playing&#8230; it just oozes so much more cool than most of us will ever have \ud83d\ude42 Well several years back I found a video on YouTube of Billy teaching some of his influences. Clearly it&#8217;s a video taken from some sort of instructional thing from long ago &#8211; [&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":[39,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6759"}],"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=6759"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6761,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6759\/revisions\/6761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}