{"id":7109,"date":"2017-07-26T23:02:23","date_gmt":"2017-07-27T06:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/?p=7109"},"modified":"2017-07-26T23:02:23","modified_gmt":"2017-07-27T06:02:23","slug":"play-along-with-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/play-along-with-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Play Along With Me&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is one important part of learning to play guitar (and blues soloing in particular) that I think gets too often overlooked. Shoot, even I don&#8217;t do this as often as I should.<\/p>\n<p>But I can remember as a kid just putting on tapes (or CDs, or even just the radio at times) and just playing along with every single song trying to find <em>any<\/em> of the sounds I was hearing.<\/p>\n<p>So grab your guitar because for the next 10 minutes or so I want you to play along with me.<\/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\/xmDKWrXaoK4?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 of this video &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com\/bguvideos\/blogvids\/PlayAlongBluesInA.mp4\">MP4 <\/a>| <a href=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com\/bguvideos\/blogvids\/PlayAlongBluesInA.wmv\">WMV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And, of course, let us know how it goes for you in the comments \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is one important part of learning to play guitar (and blues soloing in particular) that I think gets too often overlooked. Shoot, even I don&#8217;t do this as often as I should. But I can remember as a kid just putting on tapes (or CDs, or even just the radio at times) and just [&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\/7109"}],"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=7109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7110,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7109\/revisions\/7110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}