{"id":7622,"date":"2019-04-10T19:14:01","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T02:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/?p=7622"},"modified":"2019-04-10T19:14:01","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T02:14:01","slug":"soloing-in-e-without-box-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/soloing-in-e-without-box-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Soloing In E Without Box 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a short video based on a question from a viewer who was struggling with soloing over a blues in E&#8230; which I understand (because I had the same problem when I was new to soloing.)<\/p>\n<p>E is an odd key because, on the low end, Box 1 of the Pentatonic scale is in open position, which throws many people off, and if you bring it up an octave it&#8217;s in 12th position which is already pretty high and squeaky, and probably not where you want to start a solo&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So, what to do?<\/p>\n<p>This is a GREAT musical problem to solve&#8230; so watch and let&#8217;s solve it together:<\/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\/0jlvVxBz1y0?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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a short video based on a question from a viewer who was struggling with soloing over a blues in E&#8230; which I understand (because I had the same problem when I was new to soloing.) E is an odd key because, on the low end, Box 1 of the Pentatonic scale is in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7623,"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\/7622"}],"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=7622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7624,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7622\/revisions\/7624"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}