{"id":7145,"date":"2017-10-05T20:49:39","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T03:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/?p=7145"},"modified":"2017-10-05T20:49:39","modified_gmt":"2017-10-06T03:49:39","slug":"alternatives-to-the-blues-in-e-rhythm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/alternatives-to-the-blues-in-e-rhythm\/","title":{"rendered":"Alternatives To The &#8220;Blues In E&#8221; Rhythm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;Blues In E&#8221; rhythm is one of the most quintessential blues rhythm figures on the planet&#8230; almost no other rhythm on your guitar sounds as &#8220;blues&#8221; as this one.<\/p>\n<p>And as long as it&#8217;s an E or an A, it&#8217;s not too hard to play. Those are open positions, and the stretch is no big deal.<\/p>\n<p>But what happens when that changes? What happens when you want blues in&#8230; G? or B? What then?<\/p>\n<p>Sure, you can capo it, but that&#8217;s not always an option. And for some folks, it could be arthritis or a host of other medical issues that makes it so you just aren&#8217;t going to make that stretch.<\/p>\n<p>So I decided it was time for a video with some options. Some are easy, some are not. Some may work for you, some may not. It&#8217;s not about one right answer, it&#8217;s about looking a little outside the box and seeing some options that you may not have though of.<\/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\/Vhcg1mYkYKc?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>Want to download this video? <a href=\"http:\/\/bguvideos.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogvids\/blues-in-e-alternates.mp4\">MP4 <\/a>| <a href=\"http:\/\/bguvideos.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogvids\/blues-in-e-alternates.wmv\">WMV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Let me know if any of these work for you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;Blues In E&#8221; rhythm is one of the most quintessential blues rhythm figures on the planet&#8230; almost no other rhythm on your guitar sounds as &#8220;blues&#8221; as this one. And as long as it&#8217;s an E or an A, it&#8217;s not too hard to play. Those are open positions, and the stretch is no [&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\/7145"}],"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=7145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7146,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7145\/revisions\/7146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}