{"id":7519,"date":"2019-01-28T18:20:28","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T02:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/?p=7519"},"modified":"2019-01-28T18:21:52","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T02:21:52","slug":"thump-bass-and-little-chords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/thump-bass-and-little-chords\/","title":{"rendered":"Thump Bass And Little Chords"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This acoustic blues guitar lesson was filmed live before a studio audience \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>When you play music, in general, you need 3 things to make it sound musical &#8211; rhythm, harmony, and melody. Using &#8220;thump bass&#8221; you can provide a nice rhythmic pulse, and using either a brush stroke or your other fingers, you can play chords.<\/p>\n<p>What makes it sound super cool is when you get 2 different rhythms going on&#8230; but that&#8217;s no small feat \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>You might notice that I played this lesson on an electric guitar, that&#8217;s simply to show you that acoustic playing is more of an approach, not so much about the instrument itself.<\/p>\n<p>Take some time to dig in to this video, and you can download the TAB for the 3 styles (simple, bouncing 1\/8ths, and the triplets) below the video.<\/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\/2dVmPl9vgxM?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>If you dig this sort of thing, check out my <a href=\"https:\/\/acousticbluesguitarunleashed.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Acoustic Blues Guitar Unleashed<\/a> course, or maybe grab yourself an <a href=\"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/all-access-details\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">All Access Pass<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/bguvideos.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogvids\/Thump-Bass-With-Chords-Acoustic.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click Here For The TAB<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This acoustic blues guitar lesson was filmed live before a studio audience \ud83d\ude09 When you play music, in general, you need 3 things to make it sound musical &#8211; rhythm, harmony, and melody. Using &#8220;thump bass&#8221; you can provide a nice rhythmic pulse, and using either a brush stroke or your other fingers, you can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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\/7519"}],"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=7519"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7522,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7519\/revisions\/7522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}