{"id":8711,"date":"2024-10-08T19:36:45","date_gmt":"2024-10-09T02:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/?p=8711"},"modified":"2024-10-08T19:36:45","modified_gmt":"2024-10-09T02:36:45","slug":"how-to-fix-your-licks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/how-to-fix-your-licks\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Fix Your Licks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may have heard me say that rule #1 of Blues Guitar Soloing is to NOT start your licks on beat 1&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>However, sometimes that&#8217;s easier said than done, especially if you&#8217;ve already got a bunch of &#8220;beat 1&#8221; licks.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a super simple way to add a little pickup to your existing licks and get them off beat 1 and into the blues sound&#8230;<\/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\/iFTrwAe1O7I?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>Of course, if you&#8217;re learning all your blues licks from me (like the ones in <a href=\"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/get-blues-guitar-unleashed\/\">Blues Guitar Unleashed<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/get-50-slow-blues-licks-by-the-box\/\">50 Slow Blues Licks By The Box<\/a>) then they&#8217;re already off beat 1 for you..<\/p>\n<p>BUT, you can still use this trick to add even more or change the ones you have.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may have heard me say that rule #1 of Blues Guitar Soloing is to NOT start your licks on beat 1&#8230; However, sometimes that&#8217;s easier said than done, especially if you&#8217;ve already got a bunch of &#8220;beat 1&#8221; licks. Here&#8217;s a super simple way to add a little pickup to your existing licks and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8712,"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\/8711"}],"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=8711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8713,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8711\/revisions\/8713"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}