{"id":8680,"date":"2024-09-12T19:23:56","date_gmt":"2024-09-13T02:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/?p=8680"},"modified":"2024-09-11T09:26:34","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T16:26:34","slug":"bb-king-knows-this-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/bb-king-knows-this-better\/","title":{"rendered":"BB King Knows This Better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most guitar players I see feel like they need to go all over the fretboard to be good&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But BB King knew that the secret to sounding amazing wasn&#8217;t in how much fretboard real estate you could cover&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It was in how well you could outline the chords and create melodies in the one area of the guitar that it &#8220;speaks&#8221; the best.<\/p>\n<p>BB King knew things most of us today have forgotten, and we&#8217;d all be wise to go back to his playing as the model of how it should be done.<\/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\/w3RGojCX1eI?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 about how to play like BB King, check out my How To Solo Like BB King course at: <a href=\"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/get-how-to-solo-like-bb-king\/\">https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/get-how-to-solo-like-bb-king\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most guitar players I see feel like they need to go all over the fretboard to be good&#8230; But BB King knew that the secret to sounding amazing wasn&#8217;t in how much fretboard real estate you could cover&#8230; It was in how well you could outline the chords and create melodies in the one area [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8681,"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\/8680"}],"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=8680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8682,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8680\/revisions\/8682"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}