{"id":8036,"date":"2020-06-05T17:08:03","date_gmt":"2020-06-06T00:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/?p=8036"},"modified":"2020-06-05T17:08:03","modified_gmt":"2020-06-06T00:08:03","slug":"soloing-levels-for-knowing-what-to-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/soloing-levels-for-knowing-what-to-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"Soloing Levels For Knowing What To Practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I get this all the time&#8230; &#8220;I want to improve my blues soloing&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, I get that, but exactly *how* do you intend to do that?<\/p>\n<p>And, what is &#8220;improved&#8221; going to be like?<\/p>\n<p>If you have no way to evaluate where you are now, and no way to define where you want to go, it&#8217;s unlikely you&#8217;re going to get &#8220;there&#8221; (wherever &#8220;there&#8221; is.)<\/p>\n<p>Kind of like going on a road trip with no map and no destination &#8211; might be fun, but you can&#8217;t be mad if you don&#8217;t end up anywhere new \ud83d\ude09<\/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\/4KnsiDqYllQ?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 get this all the time&#8230; &#8220;I want to improve my blues soloing&#8230;&#8221; Yeah, I get that, but exactly *how* do you intend to do that? And, what is &#8220;improved&#8221; going to be like? If you have no way to evaluate where you are now, and no way to define where you want to go, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8036"}],"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=8036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8038,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8036\/revisions\/8038"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}