{"id":7160,"date":"2017-10-25T22:58:03","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T05:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/?p=7160"},"modified":"2017-10-26T00:38:07","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T07:38:07","slug":"easy-blues-song-arrangement-hoochie-coochie-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/easy-blues-song-arrangement-hoochie-coochie-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Easy Blues Song Arrangement &#8211; Hoochie Coochie Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought it might be fun today to look at how you can play a complete song in a simple arrangement.<\/p>\n<p>One of the bestest things about blues is the fact that you can make most any song&nbsp; as easy or as difficult as you want&#8230; you can easily scale it to fit your current level.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, I recently played this song with my buddy Steve (sloslunas on the forum) at the BGU Roadtrip in Allen, Texas and I was thinking what a great lesson this would make because it&#8217;s such an iconic song (one of my personal favorites) and the vocal goes opposite the riff in true all-and-response fashion.<\/p>\n<p>Now&#8230; there&#8217;s no TAB&#8230; that&#8217;s on purpose. I want you to use your ears and work this out for yourself. Watch the video several times if you have to but listen to me count and follow me. It&#8217;s important to learn to use your ears as well as your eyes when it comes to playing music (probably even more so!)<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy this and I hope you have a great time and can play it the whole way through!<\/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\/eA-guJttFwE?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>Download this video? <a href=\"http:\/\/bguvideos.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogvids\/hoochie-coochie-easy-arrangement.mp4\">MP4<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/bguvideos.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogvids\/hoochie-coochie-easy-arrangement.wmv\">WMV<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought it might be fun today to look at how you can play a complete song in a simple arrangement. One of the bestest things about blues is the fact that you can make most any song&nbsp; as easy or as difficult as you want&#8230; you can easily scale it to fit your current [&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\/7160"}],"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=7160"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7164,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7160\/revisions\/7164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}