{"id":7457,"date":"2018-12-12T20:20:50","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T04:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/?p=7457"},"modified":"2018-12-12T15:29:28","modified_gmt":"2018-12-12T23:29:28","slug":"on-beat-1-vs-off-beat-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/on-beat-1-vs-off-beat-1\/","title":{"rendered":"On Beat 1 Vs. Off Beat 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve heard me say it once, you&#8217;ve probably heard me say it 1000 times &#8211; you don&#8217;t want to start your licks on beat 1 of a bar.<\/p>\n<p>Why? It goes back to the old call-and-response thing&#8230; let the band establish the chord on the &#8220;call,&#8221; and you play as the &#8220;response.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Me saying it is one thing&#8230; you hearing it is a &#8220;whole &#8216;nuther&#8221; thing (as we say in the midwest, where I&#8217;m from.) So I took a generic blues lick, one you&#8217;ve likely heard and played, and I&#8217;ll show you how it sounds starting on beat 1, and then starting off of beat 1.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m hoping that the improvement will be obvious &#8211; if it isn&#8217;t, I may need to rethink my line of work \ud83d\ude09<\/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\/_ABJqiCEIB0?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><a href=\"https:\/\/bguvideos.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogvids\/StartingOnBeat1Lesson-Nov2018.pdf\">Download The Tab Here [PDF]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve heard me say it once, you&#8217;ve probably heard me say it 1000 times &#8211; you don&#8217;t want to start your licks on beat 1 of a bar. Why? It goes back to the old call-and-response thing&#8230; let the band establish the chord on the &#8220;call,&#8221; and you play as the &#8220;response.&#8221; Me saying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7458,"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\/7457"}],"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=7457"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7460,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7457\/revisions\/7460"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}