{"id":7222,"date":"2017-12-23T12:24:09","date_gmt":"2017-12-23T20:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/?p=7222"},"modified":"2017-12-23T12:27:09","modified_gmt":"2017-12-23T20:27:09","slug":"merry-christmas-baby-slow-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/merry-christmas-baby-slow-blues\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas Baby &#8211; Slow Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So the other day I was Christmas shopping with my wife and this song came on the background music. What caught my ear was how it&#8217;s a lesson straight out of <a href=\"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/get-blues-guitar-unleashed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Blues Guitar Unleashed<\/a> (The Stormy Slide) and was yet another place where I heard it used in a &#8220;real&#8221; song \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Now, in the recording I heard (don&#8217;t know the band, sorry) the bass player was doubling the guitar on the little walkup. But I got to thinking that it would sound great even just by itself, and I think it sounds just fine.<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;ll let you play with it and see if you think so too.<\/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\/ccCtvuTt5_s?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=\"https:\/\/bguvideos.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogvids\/MerryChristmasBaby-BluesGuitarLesson.mp4\">MP4<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the other day I was Christmas shopping with my wife and this song came on the background music. What caught my ear was how it&#8217;s a lesson straight out of Blues Guitar Unleashed (The Stormy Slide) and was yet another place where I heard it used in a &#8220;real&#8221; song \ud83d\ude42 Now, in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7222"}],"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=7222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7223,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7222\/revisions\/7223"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}