{"id":8941,"date":"2025-10-01T12:51:59","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T19:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/?p=8941"},"modified":"2025-10-01T13:10:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T20:10:52","slug":"srv-couldnt-stand-the-weather-grooving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/srv-couldnt-stand-the-weather-grooving\/","title":{"rendered":"SRV &#8220;Couldn&#8217;t Stand The Weather&#8221; Grooving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love this song, and if you&#8217;ve ever tried to learn, &#8220;Couldn&#8217;t Stand The Weather,&#8221; the sixteenth notes can be really challenging.<\/p>\n<p>Almost more challenging is the left hand muting during nearly every single phrase of the riff.<\/p>\n<p>But if you can master this, you can confidently move from the beginning stages to the intermediate and advanced stages because this is how pros really play.<\/p>\n<p>Take your time, count out loud, and just do what I do and say what I say. Go as slow as you need to go and repeat as often as necessary. It&#8217;ll be stupid slow at first, but then all of a sudden it&#8217;ll just click.<\/p>\n<p>PS &#8211; I&#8217;m tuned down for this demonstration to Eb, like Stevie. If you choose to keep to standard tuning, just go down 1 fret, it doesn&#8217;t change anything else.<\/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\/3WcVAO9lK2Y?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><a href=\"https:\/\/bguvideos.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com\/blogvids\/CouldntStandTheWeatherTAB.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The TAB for this section is here (PDF)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love this song, and if you&#8217;ve ever tried to learn, &#8220;Couldn&#8217;t Stand The Weather,&#8221; the sixteenth notes can be really challenging. Almost more challenging is the left hand muting during nearly every single phrase of the riff. But if you can master this, you can confidently move from the beginning stages to the intermediate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8942,"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\/8941"}],"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=8941"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8945,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8941\/revisions\/8945"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}