{"id":8155,"date":"2021-05-14T10:50:57","date_gmt":"2021-05-14T17:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/?p=8155"},"modified":"2021-05-15T20:02:23","modified_gmt":"2021-05-16T03:02:23","slug":"better-blues-solos-with-syncopation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/better-blues-solos-with-syncopation\/","title":{"rendered":"Better Blues Solos With Syncopation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wanting to play cooler blues solos is a typical request from students&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But most go about it all wrong, thinking that more notes, more patterns, and more speed, are going to solve the problem.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;fix&#8221; is always in the simple things, rhythm and placement.<\/p>\n<p>In particular, the use of syncopation can make *all* the difference, so we&#8217;ll talk a little about it here.<\/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\/Lw2kLgxl5Vw?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>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wanting to play cooler blues solos is a typical request from students&#8230; But most go about it all wrong, thinking that more notes, more patterns, and more speed, are going to solve the problem. The &#8220;fix&#8221; is always in the simple things, rhythm and placement. In particular, the use of syncopation can make *all* the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8156,"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\/8155"}],"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=8155"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8160,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8155\/revisions\/8160"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}