{"id":7274,"date":"2018-02-06T19:13:17","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T03:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/?p=7274"},"modified":"2019-10-13T16:47:02","modified_gmt":"2019-10-13T23:47:02","slug":"blues-keys-vs-real-keys-with-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/blues-keys-vs-real-keys-with-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Blues Keys Vs. Real Keys (With Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the thing&#8230; when we say we&#8217;re in a &#8220;key&#8221; in blues, we aren&#8217;t really in a key at all.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a convenience, but it&#8217;s not accurate.<\/p>\n<p>For example, when we say a blues is \u201cin the key of E,\u201d it\u2019s not, really. That\u2019s just something we say. And if you\u2019re new to the blues, and new to music, in general, this can be pretty confusing.<\/p>\n<p>I did an article about this once before, that you may want to read, but the subject seemed to need a video as well:<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-plugin-new youtube\" style=\"max-width:100%; width:853px; height:auto; padding-top:0; padding-bottom:0; margin:0 auto;margin:0 auto; border: 0px solid #fff;margin-bottom: 20px;\"><div style=\"width:853px;height:0;  padding-bottom: 56.271981242673%; padding-top:0;\"><iframe width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uUoSpbey3eo?wmode=opaque&showinfo=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;controls=1&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;vq=&amp;rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Download it &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/bguvideos.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogvids\/BluesKeysVsRealKeys.mp4\">MP4<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the thing&#8230; when we say we&#8217;re in a &#8220;key&#8221; in blues, we aren&#8217;t really in a key at all. It&#8217;s a convenience, but it&#8217;s not accurate. For example, when we say a blues is \u201cin the key of E,\u201d it\u2019s not, really. That\u2019s just something we say. And if you\u2019re new to the blues, [&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":[10,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7274"}],"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=7274"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7818,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7274\/revisions\/7818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}