{"id":6960,"date":"2016-10-02T22:13:01","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T05:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/?p=6960"},"modified":"2016-10-02T22:34:44","modified_gmt":"2016-10-03T05:34:44","slug":"play-cooler-by-playing-slower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/play-cooler-by-playing-slower\/","title":{"rendered":"Play Cooler By Playing Slower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who doesn&#8217;t want to sound cooler and at the same time play slower?<\/p>\n<p>It seems that when you want to add some excitement and &#8220;mix it up&#8221; in your solos, that you should play faster, right? I think most of us think that way&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But what you really want to do is add some interest, some <em>syncopation<\/em>, and some back and forth between accenting down beats and up beats.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a way to create some of that coolness factor without actually speeding up&#8230; and in fact you get to slow down.<\/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\/uY-cdFoapoY?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>Downloads &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/bguvideos.s3.amazonaws.com\/Dottedquarternotebluesleadlesson.mp4\">MP4<\/a> |<a href=\"http:\/\/bguvideos.s3.amazonaws.com\/DottedQuarterNoteBluesLeadLesson.wmv\">WMV<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who doesn&#8217;t want to sound cooler and at the same time play slower? It seems that when you want to add some excitement and &#8220;mix it up&#8221; in your solos, that you should play faster, right? I think most of us think that way&#8230; But what you really want to do is add some interest, [&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\/6960"}],"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=6960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6961,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6960\/revisions\/6961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}