{"id":8170,"date":"2021-07-12T18:16:32","date_gmt":"2021-07-13T01:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/?p=8170"},"modified":"2021-07-12T13:18:29","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T20:18:29","slug":"blues-soloing-mixing-sounds-over-1-chord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/blues-soloing-mixing-sounds-over-1-chord\/","title":{"rendered":"Blues Soloing &#8211; Mixing Sounds Over 1 Chord"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of my students spend a lot of their time practicing soloing over a 12 bar blues&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But that requires some different muscles &#8211; you have to pay attention to what bar you are in the progression&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Plus you have to think about chord changes.<\/p>\n<p>Well, sometimes, you want to NOT think about those things, and you want to concentrate on playing things that are musical.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, it&#8217;s helpful to spend some time just &#8220;noodling&#8221; and listening for the sounds&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And it can help you be ready for things that are not in the standard 12 bar blues form&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Plus, it improves your ear and it&#8217;s fun!<\/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\/nemi-Da9YWE?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>A lot of my students spend a lot of their time practicing soloing over a 12 bar blues&#8230; But that requires some different muscles &#8211; you have to pay attention to what bar you are in the progression&#8230; Plus you have to think about chord changes. Well, sometimes, you want to NOT think about those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8171,"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\/8170"}],"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=8170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8172,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8170\/revisions\/8172"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}