{"id":7757,"date":"2019-08-26T19:15:42","date_gmt":"2019-08-27T02:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/?p=7757"},"modified":"2019-08-26T19:15:42","modified_gmt":"2019-08-27T02:15:42","slug":"the-things-i-used-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/the-things-i-used-to-do\/","title":{"rendered":"The Things I Used To Do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first 12 bars of what Guitar Slim plays over &#8220;The Things That I Used To Do&#8221; is a great example of 2 powerful concepts:<\/p>\n<p>First &#8211; using both the triplet, slow blues, feel along with the occasional set of straight sixteenth notes. BB King is another player that uses this a lot and it always sounds grreat.<\/p>\n<p>Second &#8211; he uses what seems to be the major pentatonic sound over the IV and V, but notice how he very carefully avoids the one note that would make it sound bad.<\/p>\n<p>Hope you dig the video!<\/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\/etSboZ9_OO4?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>The TAB is <a href=\"https:\/\/bguvideos.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogvids\/GuitarSlimThingsIUsedToDo.pdf\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first 12 bars of what Guitar Slim plays over &#8220;The Things That I Used To Do&#8221; is a great example of 2 powerful concepts: First &#8211; using both the triplet, slow blues, feel along with the occasional set of straight sixteenth notes. BB King is another player that uses this a lot and it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7758,"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\/7757"}],"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=7757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7759,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7757\/revisions\/7759"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}