{"id":7688,"date":"2019-07-01T15:06:08","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T22:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/?p=7688"},"modified":"2019-07-01T15:12:22","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T22:12:22","slug":"using-marks-to-learn-licks-faster-and-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/using-marks-to-learn-licks-faster-and-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Marks To Learn Licks Faster And Better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this lesson we&#8217;ll talk about using what I call, &#8220;marks,&#8221; to learn passages that are difficult to count, or to save yourself counting situations where it might be unnecessary.<\/p>\n<p>To be clear, counting, and knowing exactly which beat every single note of your lick sits on is paramount &#8211; and is the only &#8220;guaranteed&#8221; option.<\/p>\n<p>But for some folks, this can work really well, especially in situations where you might have a really long string of notes in a slow blues and you just have to cram them all in there somehow.<\/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\/bt38eKm8OtQ?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>In this lesson we&#8217;ll talk about using what I call, &#8220;marks,&#8221; to learn passages that are difficult to count, or to save yourself counting situations where it might be unnecessary. To be clear, counting, and knowing exactly which beat every single note of your lick sits on is paramount &#8211; and is the only &#8220;guaranteed&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7690,"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\/7688"}],"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=7688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7689,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7688\/revisions\/7689"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}