{"id":8111,"date":"2021-03-05T18:05:40","date_gmt":"2021-03-06T02:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/?p=8111"},"modified":"2021-03-05T12:10:43","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T20:10:43","slug":"do-this-play-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/do-this-play-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Do This &#8211; Play Better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone, playing any style of music, needs to either improve or maintain their technique&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think it matters how long you&#8217;ve been playing, you can always use a refresher.<\/p>\n<p>I stole a bunch of this stuff over the years from some really great guitar players and teachers I&#8217;ve had&#8230; so I can&#8217;t take credit&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But I can tell you that if you want to play better, improving your technical ability always helps.<\/p>\n<p>So watch the video &#8211; maybe a couple of times &#8211; and swipe some things you like, and practice them every day.<\/p>\n<p>Most importantly, pay attention to when I talk about the specific technique (all fingers down, lifting up one at a time, etc.)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And when I talk about playing as quietly and smoothly as possible.<\/p>\n<p>Those two tips, alone, can radically improve your playing in short order.<\/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\/ADRDRkLOO20?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>Anyone, playing any style of music, needs to either improve or maintain their technique&#8230; I don&#8217;t think it matters how long you&#8217;ve been playing, you can always use a refresher. I stole a bunch of this stuff over the years from some really great guitar players and teachers I&#8217;ve had&#8230; so I can&#8217;t take credit&#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8112,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8111"}],"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=8111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8113,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8111\/revisions\/8113"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}