{"id":7374,"date":"2018-09-15T20:42:48","date_gmt":"2018-09-16T03:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/?p=7374"},"modified":"2020-04-02T21:42:35","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T04:42:35","slug":"bb-king-let-the-good-times-roll-lick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/bb-king-let-the-good-times-roll-lick\/","title":{"rendered":"BB King Let The Good Times Roll Lick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a fun lick that shows off BB King&#8217;s incredible use of my favorite thing &#8211; rhythm.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a simple pattern, one I commonly call the <a href=\"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/the-house-pattern\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">House Pattern<\/a>, with a slight variation towards the end that&#8217;s cool to see in use.<\/p>\n<p>But the main thing is&#8230; (drum roll please) the counting! You get to use a bunch of off beats, and even switch between counting swing 1\/8ths and straight 1\/16ths (Yay!)<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s worth your time, even if you don&#8217;t solo much yet, simply for the practice and because it sounds so sweet.<\/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\/mkxfqvhTvlc?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>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you want the TAB you can download it <a href=\"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/pdf\/BBKing-GoodTimes-Sixteenths-Lick.pdf\">HERE (PDF)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a fun lick that shows off BB King&#8217;s incredible use of my favorite thing &#8211; rhythm. It&#8217;s a simple pattern, one I commonly call the House Pattern, with a slight variation towards the end that&#8217;s cool to see in use. But the main thing is&#8230; (drum roll please) the counting! You get to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7375,"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\/7374"}],"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=7374"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7979,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7374\/revisions\/7979"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}