{"id":7084,"date":"2017-05-18T22:18:31","date_gmt":"2017-05-19T05:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/?p=7084"},"modified":"2017-05-18T22:19:57","modified_gmt":"2017-05-19T05:19:57","slug":"beginning-blues-soloing-without-thinking-about-scales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/beginning-blues-soloing-without-thinking-about-scales\/","title":{"rendered":"Beginning Blues Soloing Without Thinking About Scales&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you always wanted to play blues solos but aren&#8217;t so interested in going through such a steep learning curve?<\/p>\n<p>You might think you have to learn a bunch of scales or &#8220;boxes&#8221; or &#8220;patterns&#8221;&#8230; and then there&#8217;s the music theory and all these &#8220;licks&#8221; people keep talking about?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Can&#8217;t you just play?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yes, you can&#8230; and if you start small, it&#8217;s actually pretty darn simple. (Oh, and if you&#8217;re a more seasoned blues soloist, do this anyway because it&#8217;s a good way for you to think that&#8217;s a little different from the standard &#8220;boxes&#8221; and scales you might already know.)<\/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\/NDpLuQcwrNw?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>Download this video &#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/bguvideos.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogvids\/Blues-Guitar-Lesson-How-To-Solo-Beginner-No-Scales.mp4\"> MP4<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/bguvideos.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogvids\/Blues-Guitar-Lesson-How-To-Solo-Beginner-No-Scales.wmv\">WMV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And you might want to check out <a href=\"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/get-soloing-without-scales\/\" target=\"_blank\">Soloing Without Scales<\/a> as well, it&#8217;s entirely based on this way of thinking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you always wanted to play blues solos but aren&#8217;t so interested in going through such a steep learning curve? You might think you have to learn a bunch of scales or &#8220;boxes&#8221; or &#8220;patterns&#8221;&#8230; and then there&#8217;s the music theory and all these &#8220;licks&#8221; people keep talking about? &#8220;Can&#8217;t you just play?&#8221; Yes, you [&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\/7084"}],"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=7084"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7088,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7084\/revisions\/7088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}