{"id":6970,"date":"2016-10-14T19:42:26","date_gmt":"2016-10-15T02:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/?p=6970"},"modified":"2016-10-14T19:42:26","modified_gmt":"2016-10-15T02:42:26","slug":"the-half-whole-diminished-sound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/the-half-whole-diminished-sound\/","title":{"rendered":"The Half-Whole Diminished Sound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s video is not for everyone, and I get that&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Some folks love this type of sound, some folks down, and either way is okay. I&#8217;m not saying you have to learn this and make it part of your everyday playing (unless you love it like I do,) but you should be aware of it.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s commonly used by more &#8220;jazzy&#8221; or &#8220;modern&#8221; sounding blues players like Robben Ford, Larry Carlton, Matt Schofield, and probably a few others I can&#8217;t think of off the top of my head.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s actually a really easy shape to play and it&#8217;s pretty easy to use (if you know where you are in the 12 bar blues form&#8230;)<\/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\/B8TJ_lm7KwI?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\/HalfWholeDiminishedIdea.wmv\">WMV<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/bguvideos.s3.amazonaws.com\/HalfWholeDiminishedIdea.mp4\">MP4<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/bguvideos.s3.amazonaws.com\/HalfWholeDiminishedIdea.pdf\">TAB in PDF<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s video is not for everyone, and I get that&#8230; Some folks love this type of sound, some folks down, and either way is okay. I&#8217;m not saying you have to learn this and make it part of your everyday playing (unless you love it like I do,) but you should be aware of it. [&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\/6970"}],"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=6970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6971,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6970\/revisions\/6971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}