{"id":8379,"date":"2023-01-08T14:05:25","date_gmt":"2023-01-08T22:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/?p=8379"},"modified":"2023-01-08T14:05:25","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T22:05:25","slug":"cream-era-clapton-crossroads-major-blues-lick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/cream-era-clapton-crossroads-major-blues-lick\/","title":{"rendered":"Cream Era Clapton Crossroads Major Blues Lick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I often get requests for more &#8220;major blues&#8221; licks, and this is a good one from Clapton&#8217;s performance of &#8220;Crossroads,&#8221; with Cream&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In particular, this shows using the somewhat standard Box 2 pattern for the scale, but also adds in a note from the minor blues scale, which happens a lot as well.<\/p>\n<p>So check this video out, there&#8217;s a lot of good stuff in here about the lick, itself, and especially ways to practice 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\/PfGs8Ps5mUs?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>I often get requests for more &#8220;major blues&#8221; licks, and this is a good one from Clapton&#8217;s performance of &#8220;Crossroads,&#8221; with Cream&#8230; In particular, this shows using the somewhat standard Box 2 pattern for the scale, but also adds in a note from the minor blues scale, which happens a lot as well. So check [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8380,"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\/8379"}],"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=8379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8381,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8379\/revisions\/8381"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}