{"id":79,"date":"2009-12-22T17:13:16","date_gmt":"2009-12-22T22:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/?p=79"},"modified":"2018-12-10T19:36:45","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T03:36:45","slug":"merry-christmas-blues-lesson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/merry-christmas-blues-lesson\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas Blues Lesson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While to some folks The Blues and Christmas don&#8217;t exactly go hand in hand, there have been some truly great Christmas blues songs recorded throughout the years.<\/p>\n<p>Honestly I really didn&#8217;t know about this until one of my students brought it to my attention and I started to investigate further all of the Christmas songs out there done by blues artists.<\/p>\n<p>This particular one, &#8220;Merry Christmas Baby&#8221; was recorded by Elvis Presley. It&#8217;s such a perfect example of one of the Blues Guitar Unleashed lessons at work, that I just had to make a video out of it and show you how it&#8217;s put together.<\/p>\n<p>Granted, this is not a note-for-note transcription of the tune, that would be illegal. This is, however, very much in the style of Merry Christmas Baby and is a common idea that could be used for dozens of blues songs. Enjoy and Merry Christmas Everyone!<\/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\/Vpc86xceJA8?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>Downloads:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bluesguitarunleashed.com\/pdf\/merry-xmas-elvis.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TAB<\/a> in PDF<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While to some folks The Blues and Christmas don&#8217;t exactly go hand in hand, there have been some truly great Christmas blues songs recorded throughout the years. Honestly I really didn&#8217;t know about this until one of my students brought it to my attention and I started to investigate further all of the Christmas songs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2,6,35,36,11,41,7,9],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79"}],"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=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7455,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions\/7455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}