{"id":6983,"date":"2016-11-02T20:01:19","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T03:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/?p=6983"},"modified":"2016-11-02T20:01:19","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T03:01:19","slug":"skills-to-pay-the-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/skills-to-pay-the-bills\/","title":{"rendered":"Skills To Pay The Bills"},"content":{"rendered":"

Guitar playing revolves around a lot of different skills… some of them are basic like plucking a string, while others are a bit more complex like strumming in time.<\/p>\n

Some skills are what I call “hows” in that they revolve around how to do something – how<\/em> to switch from C to G smoothly, or how<\/em> to play the A minor blues scale.<\/p>\n

Still others revolve around “whats,” and those tend to be a little harder to pin down – what should I play in my solo, or what variation of an A7 chord should I play?<\/p>\n

Now maybe it’s the end of the year approaching (this always seems to happen around this time,) but lately I’ve been really focusing a lot on making sure that I have videos and materials that truly answer every question you might have, or solve every problem that you might encounter on your journey to be a better blues guitar player…<\/p>\n

So to that end I thought it might be fun to get your ideas on what the essential skills are when it comes to being a guitar player.<\/p>\n

But, of course, I’ll start, and you can leave any others you can think of in the comments below. If we can come up with a comprehensive list it’ll be super helpful to a lot of people.<\/p>\n

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  1. how to hold a pick<\/li>\n
  2. how to position your left hand fingers correctly to make a single note<\/li>\n
  3. how to hold your fingers to make an open position chord<\/li>\n
  4. how to position your fingers for a barre chord<\/li>\n
  5. how to strum in 1\/8th notes<\/li>\n
  6. how to read music notes<\/li>\n
  7. how to count out loud when you play<\/li>\n
  8. how to count triplets<\/li>\n
  9. how to count sixteenth notes<\/li>\n
  10. how to play the minor pentatonic scale<\/li>\n
  11. how to play the minor blues scale<\/li>\n
  12. how to play a diatonic major scale<\/li>\n
  13. how to play a major blues scale<\/li>\n
  14. how to play a major pentatonic scale<\/li>\n
  15. how to find any note on your guitar<\/li>\n
  16. how to name any note at random on your guitar<\/li>\n
  17. how to strum in sixteenth notes<\/li>\n
  18. how to play in a swing feel<\/li>\n
  19. how to play the standard “blues in E” rhythm in a slow blues.<\/li>\n
  20. how to play [insert song name here.]<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    and of course… there are a lot more, but that should get us going. I’m looking forward to your thoughts so leave them below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Guitar playing revolves around a lot of different skills… some of them are basic like plucking a string, while others are a bit more complex like strumming in time. Some skills are what I call “hows” in that they revolve around how to do something – how to switch from C to G smoothly, or […]<\/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":[10,27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6983"}],"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=6983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6984,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6983\/revisions\/6984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}