{"id":8955,"date":"2025-12-10T16:58:51","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T00:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/?p=8955"},"modified":"2025-12-10T18:06:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T02:06:26","slug":"the-boom-chick-country-guitar-rhythm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/the-boom-chick-country-guitar-rhythm\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;Boom-Chick&#8221; Country Guitar Rhythm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well this has certainly been an exciting last couple of days&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The response to my new, Country Guitar Unleashed course has been nothing short of overwhelming and I&#8217;m so thrilled that so many of you are already enjoying the course and many more are excited to get into it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s lesson is a stripped-down version of one of the lessons in the course, but I wanted to give you a feel for something that is truly traditional country, and not something you really do any place else. It&#8217;s what I call the &#8220;Boom-Chick&#8221; rhythm and is most evident in songs like, &#8220;Folsom Prison Blues.&#8221; (I know, a &#8220;blues,&#8221; but that&#8217;s just the name, it&#8217;s not like a traditional blues tune.)<\/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\/102jci16XUI?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>And, like I said, if you want to get in on the special launch discount, you can do that at <a href=\"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/get-cgu-launch\/\">https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/get-cgu-launch\/<\/a> through Sunday night at midnight.<\/p>\n<p>You can download the <a href=\"https:\/\/bguvideos.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com\/cgu_fun\/BoomChick-E-SlowSpeed.mp3\">slow speed version of the jam track here<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And the <a href=\"https:\/\/bguvideos.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com\/cgu_fun\/BoomChick-E-FullSpeed.mp3\">full speed version here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well this has certainly been an exciting last couple of days&#8230; The response to my new, Country Guitar Unleashed course has been nothing short of overwhelming and I&#8217;m so thrilled that so many of you are already enjoying the course and many more are excited to get into it&#8230; Today&#8217;s lesson is a stripped-down version [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8956,"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\/8955"}],"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=8955"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8959,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8955\/revisions\/8959"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}