{"id":7129,"date":"2017-09-10T17:14:11","date_gmt":"2017-09-11T00:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/?p=7129"},"modified":"2017-09-10T17:14:11","modified_gmt":"2017-09-11T00:14:11","slug":"better-practicing-with-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/better-practicing-with-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Better Practicing With Technology."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a great time to be a guitar player&#8230;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I know it sounds like me being old, but &#8220;back in the old days&#8221; the idea of being able to slow down sections, loop them without having to take your hands off the guitar, and generally doing everything you can to a track to make it easier to work with&#8230; well those ideas were just that, ideas!<\/p>\n<p>I never imagined the day would come where I wouldn&#8217;t wear out tape decks every 6 months from hitting &#8220;rewind&#8221; and &#8220;play&#8221; without hitting &#8220;stop&#8221; first \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Recently I&#8217;ve been playing around with some new technology, so I made a video with a couple of options, free and paid.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of which option you choose, and there&#8217;s no reason to debate the value of it, either it is valuable to you or not &#8211; take some time to watch the video and add this to your practice routine by whatever means you can.<\/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\/1Od6JJWbrTw?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>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And as for my recommendations &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/songsurgeon.com\/page.c445.359.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Song Surgeon<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/videolan.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">VLC <\/a>(both will open in a new window.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a great time to be a guitar player&#8230;&nbsp; I know it sounds like me being old, but &#8220;back in the old days&#8221; the idea of being able to slow down sections, loop them without having to take your hands off the guitar, and generally doing everything you can to a track to make 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":[47,27,53],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7129"}],"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=7129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7130,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7129\/revisions\/7130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}