{"id":6887,"date":"2016-05-16T00:34:25","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T07:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/?p=6887"},"modified":"2019-03-20T09:35:37","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T16:35:37","slug":"slow-blues-rhythmic-solo-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/slow-blues-rhythmic-solo-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"Slow Blues Rhythmic Solo Ideas&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the first things most of my students go for when playing over a slow blues is more speed, and that doesn&#8217;t usually work out as intended.<\/p>\n<p>The thing with speed is that most of the times you&#8217;re dealing with a double &#8211; quarter notes go to eighth notes which are twice as fast, and from there it&#8217;s sixteenth notes which are twice as fast as eighth notes.<\/p>\n<p>After the sixteenth notes it&#8217;s 32nd notes which are&#8230; kind of silly fast<\/p>\n<p>But what if there were some options for soloing over a slow blues where you use rhythms that are different, but not twice as fast? You&#8217;d have a much better chance of nailing them \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a video with a couple of ideas for you to try.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-plugin-new youtube\" style=\"max-width:100%; width:640px; height:auto; padding-top:0; padding-bottom:0; margin:0 auto;margin:0 auto; border: 0px solid #fff;margin-bottom: 20px;\"><div style=\"width:640px;height:0;  padding-bottom: 56.25%; padding-top:0;\"><iframe width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wu2Do19c1HY?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>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Downloads &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/bguvideos.s3.amazonaws.com\/SlowBluesRhythmicLeadIdeas.mp4\">MP4<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/bguvideos.s3.amazonaws.com\/SlowBluesRhythmicLeadIdeas.wmv\">WMV<\/a> (you might have to right click)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the first things most of my students go for when playing over a slow blues is more speed, and that doesn&#8217;t usually work out as intended. The thing with speed is that most of the times you&#8217;re dealing with a double &#8211; quarter notes go to eighth notes which are twice as fast, [&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\/6887"}],"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=6887"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7595,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6887\/revisions\/7595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}