{"id":7339,"date":"2018-06-05T20:54:56","date_gmt":"2018-06-06T03:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/?p=7339"},"modified":"2018-06-05T21:13:10","modified_gmt":"2018-06-06T04:13:10","slug":"the-blues-squeeze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/the-blues-squeeze\/","title":{"rendered":"The Blues Squeeze&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of folks think that in order to really make the blues sing, you have to use a major sound (or a major blues scale) over the I chord, and then switch to the minor blues sound (or scale, same thing) over the IV and V chord.<\/p>\n<p>And, truth be told, it&#8217;s probably one of the single most confusing elements of blues lead guitar. We talk about it often on the Blues Guitar Unleashed Forum, and it&#8217;s a question that comes up time and time again.<\/p>\n<p>Now, over the IV and V, you don&#8217;t have any options &#8211; the minor sound is your best choice (for now&#8230;) but you DO have a choice to simplify over the I chord if you pay attention to one note, and &#8220;squeeze&#8221; it when it&#8217;s time comes.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how you do it:<\/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\/_uLToEIN1CQ?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 <a href=\"https:\/\/bguvideos.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogvids\/TheBluesSqueeze.mp4\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of folks think that in order to really make the blues sing, you have to use a major sound (or a major blues scale) over the I chord, and then switch to the minor blues sound (or scale, same thing) over the IV and V chord. And, truth be told, it&#8217;s probably one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7340,"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\/7339"}],"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=7339"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7343,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7339\/revisions\/7343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}