{"id":8181,"date":"2021-08-13T17:34:01","date_gmt":"2021-08-14T00:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/?p=8181"},"modified":"2021-08-13T17:34:01","modified_gmt":"2021-08-14T00:34:01","slug":"using-both-pentatonics-over-bluesy-chord-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/using-both-pentatonics-over-bluesy-chord-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Both Pentatonics Over &#8220;Bluesy&#8221; Chord Changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are a lot of different tunes that, while &#8220;bluesy,&#8221; aren&#8217;t really blues songs (they aren&#8217;t a 12 bar blues.)<\/p>\n<p>This particular progression, which is used in songs like, &#8220;Blue On Black,&#8221; &#8220;Sweet Home Alabama,&#8221; and a lot of other classic rock and &#8220;blues&#8221; tunes, lends itself really well to experimenting with both the major and minor blues and pentatonic scales.<\/p>\n<p>So, in this video, I&#8217;ll show you the progression, how I put it in the looper, and how I go back and forth between those major and minor pentatonic scales to hear how they work and how they create contrast when used together.<\/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\/MFzMrsn3_04?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>There are a lot of different tunes that, while &#8220;bluesy,&#8221; aren&#8217;t really blues songs (they aren&#8217;t a 12 bar blues.) This particular progression, which is used in songs like, &#8220;Blue On Black,&#8221; &#8220;Sweet Home Alabama,&#8221; and a lot of other classic rock and &#8220;blues&#8221; tunes, lends itself really well to experimenting with both the major [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8182,"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\/8181"}],"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=8181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8183,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8181\/revisions\/8183"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}