{"id":6895,"date":"2016-05-31T22:08:31","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T05:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/?p=6895"},"modified":"2016-05-31T22:08:31","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T05:08:31","slug":"stairstepping-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/stairstepping-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Stairstepping Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is an idea I call &#8220;stairstep&#8221; pentatonics&#8230; and I stole it from Robben Ford, Joe Bonamassa, Eric Johnson, and some other modern blues players.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll provide the tab under the video, but this really only works if you understand the pattern and practice it until it&#8217;s memorized &#8211; not just memorize the notes. If you understand and can use the pattern, you&#8217;ll be able to move it to other shapes&#8230; pentatonic or otherwise \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\/gB7P0Rhw_Dk?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>Here&#8217;s the TAB:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6896 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/stairstep-pentatonic-idea.png\" width=\"866\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/stairstep-pentatonic-idea.png 866w, https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/stairstep-pentatonic-idea-300x76.png 300w, https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/stairstep-pentatonic-idea-768x195.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 866px) 100vw, 866px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Downloads &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/bguvideos.s3.amazonaws.com\/StairstepPentatonicIdea.mp4\">MP4<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/bguvideos.s3.amazonaws.com\/StairstepPentatonicIdea.wmv\">WMV<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an idea I call &#8220;stairstep&#8221; pentatonics&#8230; and I stole it from Robben Ford, Joe Bonamassa, Eric Johnson, and some other modern blues players. I&#8217;ll provide the tab under the video, but this really only works if you understand the pattern and practice it until it&#8217;s memorized &#8211; not just memorize the notes. If [&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\/6895"}],"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=6895"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6898,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6895\/revisions\/6898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}