{"id":8776,"date":"2024-11-19T15:47:21","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T23:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/?p=8776"},"modified":"2024-11-20T13:41:42","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T21:41:42","slug":"beginning-picking-blues-riff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/beginning-picking-blues-riff\/","title":{"rendered":"Beginning Picking Blues Riff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While this might not be a difficult riff for you to play, if you&#8217;re a beginner it can pose some challenges&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>More importantly, most beginners I see play this a little too&#8230;. timidly.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, I&#8217;d like to show you how to use your picking hand to keep things more consistent, start some alternate picking, and get a more aggressive sound out of the riff. In my experience, this is a lot more the sound you&#8217;re probably looking for \ud83d\ude42<\/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\/Se_2kx291Vw?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 have trouble watching the video, you may be on a VPN or have some other security settings that will make YouTube ask you to identify yourself as not being a &#8220;bot&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>You can view the video directly at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Se_2kx291Vw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Se_2kx291Vw<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While this might not be a difficult riff for you to play, if you&#8217;re a beginner it can pose some challenges&#8230; More importantly, most beginners I see play this a little too&#8230;. timidly. Instead, I&#8217;d like to show you how to use your picking hand to keep things more consistent, start some alternate picking, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8777,"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\/8776"}],"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=8776"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8783,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8776\/revisions\/8783"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}