{"id":7564,"date":"2019-02-19T17:29:39","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T01:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/?p=7564"},"modified":"2019-02-19T17:29:39","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T01:29:39","slug":"dont-poke-the-root-note","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/dont-poke-the-root-note\/","title":{"rendered":"Don’t Poke The Root Note…"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is one of those things that I see many of my less experienced blues soloists do… In fact, I see it in my son’s jazz band at school, it’s just a common thing when you’re not as sure about what you’re going to play next.<\/p>\n

The tendency is to not want to leave empty space, so during periods of thinking, you might tend to “poke” the root note a few times. It’s a safe place to be, and it’s not empty space, so it seems to work.<\/p>\n

In fact, in my experience, most of my students don’t even realize they do this. So realizing it’s a thing is probably the first step to correcting it \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

But the second step is doing something better. If you’re going to poke a note, might as well make it sound cool while you’re at it, right?<\/p>\n