{"id":7948,"date":"2020-03-18T17:15:42","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T00:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/?p=7948"},"modified":"2020-03-18T17:15:42","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T00:15:42","slug":"playing-follow-the-chord-a-little-over-blues-rock-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/playing-follow-the-chord-a-little-over-blues-rock-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"Playing &#8220;Follow The Chord&#8221; A Little Over Blues\/Rock Changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For blues and blues\/rock soloing, many times we take a simple approach of just using the minor pentatonic\/blues scale for the whole thing&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And while that works over 12 bar blues changes, sometimes it sounds better when there is some other chord progression (especially if you&#8217;ve got some time on each chord) to play &#8220;chase the chord.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So in this video I&#8217;ll show you how I like to do that over a couple of progressions similar to ZZ Top&#8217;s &#8220;Cheap Sunglasses&#8221; and &#8220;Couldn&#8217;t Stand The Weather&#8221; by Stevie Ray Vaughan.<\/p>\n<p>Dig it!<\/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\/1Af2FliVzMQ?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>For blues and blues\/rock soloing, many times we take a simple approach of just using the minor pentatonic\/blues scale for the whole thing&#8230; And while that works over 12 bar blues changes, sometimes it sounds better when there is some other chord progression (especially if you&#8217;ve got some time on each chord) to play &#8220;chase [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7949,"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\/7948"}],"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=7948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7950,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7948\/revisions\/7950"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}