{"id":7641,"date":"2019-05-06T17:53:05","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T00:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/?p=7641"},"modified":"2019-05-06T17:53:05","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T00:53:05","slug":"playing-acoustic-on-electric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/playing-acoustic-on-electric\/","title":{"rendered":"Playing &#8220;Acoustic&#8221; On Electric"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These last few days we&#8217;ve been talking a lot about &#8220;acoustic&#8221; blues, in the sense that it&#8217;s blues you play by yourself &#8211; and not with a band&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But I really want to emphasize that these skills are just as useful on an electric guitar &#8211; with a band &#8211; as they are without!<\/p>\n<p>In fact, in some ways, this might help your band playing (soloing instead of solo&#8230;) as much or more than just about anything else you can do.<\/p>\n<p>So check out this video, it&#8217;s not real long, and see what I mean:<\/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\/JAaaoLrVzpQ?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>These last few days we&#8217;ve been talking a lot about &#8220;acoustic&#8221; blues, in the sense that it&#8217;s blues you play by yourself &#8211; and not with a band&#8230; But I really want to emphasize that these skills are just as useful on an electric guitar &#8211; with a band &#8211; as they are without! In [&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":[4,27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7641"}],"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=7641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7642,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7641\/revisions\/7642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}