{"id":8901,"date":"2025-06-08T17:51:29","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T00:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/?p=8901"},"modified":"2025-06-08T12:11:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T19:11:10","slug":"3-tricks-to-sound-like-bb-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/3-tricks-to-sound-like-bb-king\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Tricks To Sound Like BB King"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yup, I&#8217;m a huge BB King fan, he was probably my first blues guitar hero, aside from SRV (and followed closely by Albert and Freddie.)<\/p>\n<p>Some folks might think these &#8220;tricks&#8221; sound campy or hokey, but they work, and you really should not dismiss them. After all, they worked for &#8220;The King Of The Blues,&#8221; so they can work for you too.<\/p>\n<p>And if you want to really dive into BB King&#8217;s classic blues playing (it ain&#8217;t what you think!) then check out How To Solo Like BB King at: <a href=\"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/get-how-to-solo-like-bb-king\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/get-how-to-solo-like-bb-king\/<\/a><\/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\/_wMOAaTH0d8?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>Yup, I&#8217;m a huge BB King fan, he was probably my first blues guitar hero, aside from SRV (and followed closely by Albert and Freddie.) Some folks might think these &#8220;tricks&#8221; sound campy or hokey, but they work, and you really should not dismiss them. After all, they worked for &#8220;The King Of The Blues,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8902,"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\/8901"}],"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=8901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8903,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8901\/revisions\/8903"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}