{"id":7738,"date":"2019-08-12T19:18:39","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T02:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/?p=7738"},"modified":"2024-12-01T17:39:32","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T01:39:32","slug":"simple-blues-solo-for-beginners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/simple-blues-solo-for-beginners\/","title":{"rendered":"Simple Blues Solo For Beginners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are a few common ailments I see with most new blues players (particularly when trying to solo)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>1. They play &#8220;in the basement&#8221; where they can&#8217;t be heard above the band&#8230;<br \/>\n2. They only play from the lowest note in the pattern instead of playing from the top, which is where many solos start and flow from.<br \/>\n3. They don&#8217;t phrase &#8211; at all &#8211; because a few beats of dead air seems like an eternity.<\/p>\n<p>So I wrote a VERY simple solo for you that just basically goes through box 1 in A minor, but addresses those facets (as well as some others.)<\/p>\n<p>If you struggle with counting, phrasing, timing, or any of the things I mentioned above, this might help with that.<\/p>\n<p>And if you dig this, and it&#8217;s about at your level, but you&#8217;d like to step it up just a little (and play some real blues licks) then you might really dig my Beginning Blues Guitar Soloing course at: <a href=\"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/get-beginning-blues-guitar-soloing\/\">https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/get-beginning-blues-guitar-soloing\/<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"video-plugin-new youtube\" style=\"max-width:100%; width:853px; height:auto; padding-top:0; padding-bottom:0; margin:0 auto;margin:0 auto; border: 0px solid #fff;margin-bottom: 20px;\"><div style=\"width:853px;height:0;  padding-bottom: 56.271981242673%; padding-top:0;\"><iframe width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p6CjUSaNIOs?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<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bguvideos.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogvids\/SimpleBeginnerSoloInA.pdf\">THE TAB IS RIGHT HERE!!!<\/a> (you might have to right click to save it)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are a few common ailments I see with most new blues players (particularly when trying to solo)&#8230; 1. They play &#8220;in the basement&#8221; where they can&#8217;t be heard above the band&#8230; 2. They only play from the lowest note in the pattern instead of playing from the top, which is where many solos start [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7739,"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\/7738"}],"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=7738"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8802,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7738\/revisions\/8802"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}