{"id":7352,"date":"2018-06-22T19:26:30","date_gmt":"2018-06-23T02:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/?p=7352"},"modified":"2018-06-22T19:26:30","modified_gmt":"2018-06-23T02:26:30","slug":"it-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/it-works\/","title":{"rendered":"It Works!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, hopefully I have a little inspiration for you&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes it&#8217;s fun to just go on YouTube and search for Griff Hamlin or Blues Guitar Unleashed, and scroll down a couple of pages. Because when I do, I often find recordings of my students playing what they&#8217;ve learned.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, they often post on the Blues Guitar Unleashed Member Forum as well, but not everyone does, and I like to try and keep up with everyone any way I can.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, I need to give these guys their due for sticking with it and recording themselves and going for it!<\/p>\n<p>So if you&#8217;re not sure if learning the blues is for you, maybe this&#8217;ll change your mind:<\/p>\n<p>First, check out this guy playing Solo #6 (the last one) from Blues Guitar Unleashed (they aren&#8217;t all this difficult, I assure you, and he really nails 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\/1azDlF4xqIE?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>This one is a solid attempt at solo 4. He&#8217;s taking some liberties&#8230; but hey, ain&#8217;t that what it&#8217;s all about?<\/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\/YjUvrCURrys?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>And last, but certainly not least, this is one of our fearless forum moderators &#8211; and he wields the pink strap exceptionally well in this one which is his own doing. It was mostly just a test to see if he could play the same thing twice&#8230; and he pretty much nailed it both times. But the playing is so good I had to share. This is no particular lesson, he made this up based on a challenge we&#8217;re doing this month.<\/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\/qL5nOiUss2k?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>So, like I said, if you think you can&#8217;t learn the blues&#8230; these 3 are proof that you absolutely can, and it&#8217;ll be fun!<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re a beginning player, try <a href=\"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/get-beginning-blues-guitar\">Beginning Blues Guitar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you aspire to playing in a band environment like these guys (jam tracks count as a band) then definitely go for<a href=\"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/get-blues-guitar-unleashed\"> Blues Guitar Unleashed 2.0<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you play solo (by yourself) then you&#8217;d probably prefer <a href=\"http:\/\/acousticbluesguitarunleashed.com\">Acoustic Blues Guitar Unleashed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And, if you want access to everything, I now have an <a href=\"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/all-access-details\">All Access Pass<\/a> option available if you prefer it all online in one place.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, hopefully I have a little inspiration for you&#8230; Sometimes it&#8217;s fun to just go on YouTube and search for Griff Hamlin or Blues Guitar Unleashed, and scroll down a couple of pages. 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