{"id":8266,"date":"2022-05-24T16:09:05","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T23:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/?p=8266"},"modified":"2022-05-24T16:46:52","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T23:46:52","slug":"the-funky-blues-strum-pattern-you-might-be-playing-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/the-funky-blues-strum-pattern-you-might-be-playing-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"The Funky Blues Strum Pattern You Might Be Playing Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, maybe we&#8217;re doing Funk Guitar Unleashed today \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, though, this strumming idea comes up in both funky styles of blues, and straight up, James Brown style funk guitar&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It even comes up in rock\/pop music for songs like, &#8220;Long Train Running,&#8221; by the Doobie Brothers.<\/p>\n<p>But&#8230; it&#8217;s a strumming pattern I consistently see done very wrong, and that&#8217;s no good for your grooving.<\/p>\n<p>So let&#8217;s look at how it&#8217;s supposed to be done, and break it down into steps.<\/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\/-AlVf_2G6XQ?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>By the way, there are quite a few funky style rhythms in my <a href=\"https:\/\/strummingmastery.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Strumming &amp; Rhythm Mastery<\/a> course (recently updated to version 2.0) along with some blues, rock, alternative, country, and all kinds of other strumming styles. It does say, &#8220;Mastery,&#8221; in the title, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, maybe we&#8217;re doing Funk Guitar Unleashed today \ud83d\ude09 Seriously, though, this strumming idea comes up in both funky styles of blues, and straight up, James Brown style funk guitar&#8230; It even comes up in rock\/pop music for songs like, &#8220;Long Train Running,&#8221; by the Doobie Brothers. But&#8230; it&#8217;s a strumming pattern I consistently see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8267,"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\/8266"}],"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=8266"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8270,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8266\/revisions\/8270"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}