{"id":8468,"date":"2023-08-30T17:36:35","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T00:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/?p=8468"},"modified":"2023-08-30T11:52:31","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T18:52:31","slug":"how-do-you-solo-if-you-cant-find-the-key","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/how-do-you-solo-if-you-cant-find-the-key\/","title":{"rendered":"How Do You Solo If You Can&#8217;t Find The Key?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When we solo over a blues progression, we have a &#8220;key&#8221; that we use&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>t<\/em>&#8216;s always a &#8220;blues in E&#8221; or a &#8220;blues in A,&#8221; and we go with that, even though it&#8217;s not entirely accurate (see other videos for that discussion \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>But what happens if it&#8217;s not a blues, and you can&#8217;t tell at a glance what key it&#8217;s in? How do you just jump in and solo?<\/p>\n<p>You have to play follow the chord, and here&#8217;s how you might do that.<\/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\/521H61axzR0?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>If you dig this, you might really enjoy<a href=\"https:\/\/littlewinglesson.com\/\"> The Little Wing Lesson<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we solo over a blues progression, we have a &#8220;key&#8221; that we use&#8230; t&#8216;s always a &#8220;blues in E&#8221; or a &#8220;blues in A,&#8221; and we go with that, even though it&#8217;s not entirely accurate (see other videos for that discussion \ud83d\ude09 But what happens if it&#8217;s not a blues, and you can&#8217;t tell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8468"}],"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=8468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8469,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8468\/revisions\/8469"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}