{"id":7060,"date":"2017-04-14T19:05:05","date_gmt":"2017-04-15T02:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/?p=7060"},"modified":"2017-04-14T19:05:05","modified_gmt":"2017-04-15T02:05:05","slug":"we-arent-here-for-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/we-arent-here-for-me\/","title":{"rendered":"We Aren&#8217;t Here For Me&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my catchphrases around my students is that, &#8220;we aren&#8217;t here for me, I already know how to play.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now, occasionally I&#8217;ll grab a guitar and play for demonstration purposes, of course, but it&#8217;s a lot more fun to see my students play and watch the light bulbs go on.<\/p>\n<p>Probably for about the last 5 or 6 years I&#8217;ve been threatening to have a &#8220;Hall Of Fame&#8221; page, with student submitted videos&#8230; but (surprise, surprise) the time keeps getting away from me and now there are so many videos floating around it&#8217;s hard to nail down a few.<\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s just what I&#8217;ve got for you today. These are videos of fellow &#8220;BGU&#8217;ers&#8221; doing their thing and playing either an example straight out of one of the courses, or just jamming with a band.<\/p>\n<p>So if you don&#8217;t frequent the <a href=\"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/forum\" target=\"_blank\">Blues Guitar Unleashed Member Forum<\/a> (and if you&#8217;ve purchased ANY of my premium courses over the years you are eligible) this might serve as some inspiration (and prompt you to go sign in and introduce yourself if you haven&#8217;t already. Just use your email address as your username, and if you don&#8217;t remember your password just click the &#8220;forgot password&#8221; link.)<\/p>\n<p>Before I start&#8230; it was SUPER hard to choose just a few great videos out of so many I&#8217;ve seen over the years. But hopefully these will get you revved up to grab your guitar today.<\/p>\n<p>First, let&#8217;s start with a video from BGU Live 2016 in Memphis (with special thanks for Frank for the fine video work):<\/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\/AmJVPF3lZzg?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>This next one is one of the songs from <a href=\"http:\/\/bluesgiginabox.com\" target=\"_blank\">Blues Gig In A Box<\/a> called, &#8220;I Believe&#8221; submitted on the forum:<\/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\/nVqLvMKsNRc?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>This one is very popular, it&#8217;s one of the solos from <a href=\"http:\/\/5easybluessolos.com\" target=\"_blank\">5 Easy Blues Solos<\/a>:<\/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\/C-ggJ0bEAs4?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>Finally, a fantastic acoustic blues tune rendition. Most of these licks came from <a href=\"http:\/\/acousticbluesguitarunleashed.com\" target=\"_blank\">Acoustic Blues Guitar Unleashed<\/a>, but Ron put them together in his own way over Clapton&#8217;s <em>Drifting Blues<\/em> as part of one of my &#8220;challenges&#8221; we sometimes do.<\/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\/efvgDx8dRk4?wmode=opaque&showinfo=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;controls=1&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;vq=&amp;rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div>\n<p>And, of course, there are tons more that I&#8217;ll be sharing &#8220;Further On Up The Road.&#8221; (I know&#8230; bad pun, can&#8217;t help it.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my catchphrases around my students is that, &#8220;we aren&#8217;t here for me, I already know how to play.&#8221; Now, occasionally I&#8217;ll grab a guitar and play for demonstration purposes, of course, but it&#8217;s a lot more fun to see my students play and watch the light bulbs go on. 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