{"id":8114,"date":"2021-03-10T15:23:53","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T23:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/?p=8114"},"modified":"2021-03-10T15:23:53","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T23:23:53","slug":"how-to-solo-over-bluesy-tunes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/how-to-solo-over-bluesy-tunes\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Solo Over Bluesy Tunes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I get a lot of questions about &#8220;blues&#8221; tunes that aren&#8217;t actually blues&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Sure, they are really &#8220;bluesy,&#8221; but they aren&#8217;t an actual &#8220;blues,&#8221; so the blues soloing approach doesn&#8217;t actually work&#8230; and my students don&#8217;t understand why.<\/p>\n<p>So, since I&#8217;ve been working so much with students doing songs that aren&#8217;t &#8220;just a blues,&#8221; I&#8217;ve broken down the process of determining your approach into something quick and simple&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;ve put that approach in this video. I hope you dig it and that it helps you make a lot of great music \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\/aMojrXdcEwc?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>The short of it &#8211;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Is it a blues (12 bar, 8 bar&#8230; all dominant 7 chords?) &#8211; If so, <a href=\"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/soloing-levels-for-knowing-what-to-practice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">blues approaches<\/a> are the way to go.<\/li>\n<li>Since it&#8217;s not a blues, do you understand the harmony and how to approach it? If yes, you&#8217;re good \ud83d\ude09<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s not a blues and you don&#8217;t understand the harmony &#8211; play <a href=\"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/playing-follow-the-chord-a-little-over-blues-rock-changes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;follow the chord.&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Happy Soloing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I get a lot of questions about &#8220;blues&#8221; tunes that aren&#8217;t actually blues&#8230; Sure, they are really &#8220;bluesy,&#8221; but they aren&#8217;t an actual &#8220;blues,&#8221; so the blues soloing approach doesn&#8217;t actually work&#8230; and my students don&#8217;t understand why. So, since I&#8217;ve been working so much with students doing songs that aren&#8217;t &#8220;just a blues,&#8221; I&#8217;ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8115,"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\/8114"}],"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=8114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8116,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8114\/revisions\/8116"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}