{"id":7296,"date":"2018-03-30T20:06:02","date_gmt":"2018-03-31T03:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/?p=7296"},"modified":"2018-03-30T20:06:37","modified_gmt":"2018-03-31T03:06:37","slug":"trading-fours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/trading-fours\/","title":{"rendered":"Trading Fours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trading Fours is something that comes up a lot on gigs, but for some reason I rarely see it discussed. And since I was working with some students who asked about it, I made a video \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Trading Fours is simply playing a solo for only 4 bars of the 12 bar blues progression at a time. And then you trade.<\/p>\n<p>If there were 3 or 4 people, you&#8217;d go round robin style, but since it&#8217;s just you and me, we&#8217;ll just go back and forth. I&#8217;ll play 4 bars, then you play 4 bars, and so on.<\/p>\n<p>This will force you to keep track of the progression, but it&#8217;ll also let you dip your toe into the soloing pond and just try some stuff out without having to commit to a whole 12 bars!<\/p>\n<p>Try to mimic some of the things that I do, either just rhythmically or the notes.<\/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\/8StcSAAktic?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<div class=\"downloadlist-title-container\">\n                <h3 class=\"downloadlist-title\">Downloads<\/h3>\n            <\/div><ul class=\"downloadlist-2 border\"><li><a  href=\"https:\/\/bguvideos.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogvids\/BluesSoloingLesson-TradingFours.mp4\"><img src=\"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/optimizePressPlugin\/lib\/assets\/images\/file_download\/icons\/style2-thumb-dl-video.png\" alt=\"icon\" class=\"thumb\" \/><\/a><div class=\"content\"><a  href=\"https:\/\/bguvideos.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogvids\/BluesSoloingLesson-TradingFours.mp4\">This Video<\/a><p>Download this video here<\/p><\/div><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trading Fours is something that comes up a lot on gigs, but for some reason I rarely see it discussed. And since I was working with some students who asked about it, I made a video \ud83d\ude42 Trading Fours is simply playing a solo for only 4 bars of the 12 bar blues progression at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7296"}],"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=7296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7297,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7296\/revisions\/7297"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}