{"id":7464,"date":"2018-12-16T18:45:35","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T02:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/?p=7464"},"modified":"2018-12-16T18:51:41","modified_gmt":"2018-12-17T02:51:41","slug":"the-comping-pattern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/the-comping-pattern\/","title":{"rendered":"The Comping Pattern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Playing blues rhythm is sometimes called &#8220;comping,&#8221; especially when we talk about playing chords behind another soloist or a singer.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not really a &#8220;strum pattern,&#8221; because you don&#8217;t strum, but this is really the best way to approach rhythm behind a blues shuffle.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s nice and simple, using your trusty <a href=\"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/blues-rhythm-lesson-2-note-easy-chords\/\">2 note chords<\/a>. And this pattern will get you through a LOT of songs.<\/p>\n<p>Dig 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\/LWeJmW95Flc?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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Playing blues rhythm is sometimes called &#8220;comping,&#8221; especially when we talk about playing chords behind another soloist or a singer. It&#8217;s not really a &#8220;strum pattern,&#8221; because you don&#8217;t strum, but this is really the best way to approach rhythm behind a blues shuffle. It&#8217;s nice and simple, using your trusty 2 note chords. And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7466,"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\/7464"}],"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=7464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7465,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7464\/revisions\/7465"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}