{"id":8285,"date":"2022-06-21T19:26:32","date_gmt":"2022-06-22T02:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/?p=8285"},"modified":"2022-06-21T19:26:32","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T02:26:32","slug":"the-stairway-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/the-stairway-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"The Stairway Changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While this is obviously not a lesson on how to play Stairway To Heaven, or the solo from that tune&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It was the first song where I learned this set of changes.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, I&#8217;ve seen them in songs like, &#8220;All Along The Watchtower,&#8221; and tons of old heavy metal songs by Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, etc..<\/p>\n<p>And most recently from Kingfish Ingram in a song I transcribed for my All Access members.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s just a smidge of theory here, and then I&#8217;ll show you some ways to approach this sort of quasi-bluesy set of chords with a fun diatonic scale (a mode!)<\/p>\n<p>Dig it!<\/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\/ct69BW-RVSs?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>For more theory, check out <a href=\"https:\/\/guitartheorymadeuseful.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Guitar Theory Made Useful<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And for more about modes check out <a href=\"https:\/\/classicrockguitarunleashed.com\/get-modes-unleashed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Modes Unleashed<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While this is obviously not a lesson on how to play Stairway To Heaven, or the solo from that tune&#8230; It was the first song where I learned this set of changes. Since then, I&#8217;ve seen them in songs like, &#8220;All Along The Watchtower,&#8221; and tons of old heavy metal songs by Black Sabbath, Iron [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8286,"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\/8285"}],"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=8285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8287,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8285\/revisions\/8287"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}