{"id":8967,"date":"2026-01-28T12:59:48","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T20:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/?p=8967"},"modified":"2026-01-29T08:28:54","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T16:28:54","slug":"the-still-got-the-blues-melody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/the-still-got-the-blues-melody\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;Still Got The Blues&#8221; Melody"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Honestly, I can&#8217;t believe I&#8217;ve never taught this before publicly&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a classic melody, and a classic song that you really should know how to play. It&#8217;s actually not that difficult, unless you want to do it exactly right and then the syncopation is a little tricky so we&#8217;ll get to talk about some pretty crazy counting techniques \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\/6wU-8DAujZA?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>TAB is on-screen, or <a href=\"https:\/\/bguvideos.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com\/blogvids\/StillGotTheBluesMelody.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here for the PDF<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The chords are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9G3xZnDg4Uo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on YouTube here if you need them.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Honestly, I can&#8217;t believe I&#8217;ve never taught this before publicly&#8230; It&#8217;s a classic melody, and a classic song that you really should know how to play. It&#8217;s actually not that difficult, unless you want to do it exactly right and then the syncopation is a little tricky so we&#8217;ll get to talk about some pretty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8968,"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\/8967"}],"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=8967"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8971,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8967\/revisions\/8971"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}