{"id":7958,"date":"2020-03-25T19:23:27","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T02:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/?p=7958"},"modified":"2020-03-25T16:25:02","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T23:25:02","slug":"first-finger-bends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/first-finger-bends\/","title":{"rendered":"First Finger Bends!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know that I&#8217;m usually the first person to say, &#8220;Don&#8217;t bend with your first finger, that just doesn&#8217;t feel good and it&#8217;s hard.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That hasn&#8217;t really changed, but there *are* certain times when your first finger is going to be called upon to push some steel &#8211; and this is that time.<\/p>\n<p>These are a couple of Albert King-ish moves that tend to require the first finger if you want them to sound just right.<\/p>\n<p>So take a deep breath, say you&#8217;re sorry to your index finger&#8230; and let&#8217;s dig in \ud83d\ude42<\/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\/QRuVZFbyRxw?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>I know that I&#8217;m usually the first person to say, &#8220;Don&#8217;t bend with your first finger, that just doesn&#8217;t feel good and it&#8217;s hard.&#8221; That hasn&#8217;t really changed, but there *are* certain times when your first finger is going to be called upon to push some steel &#8211; and this is that time. These are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7959,"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\/7958"}],"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=7958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7960,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7958\/revisions\/7960"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}