{"id":8973,"date":"2026-02-08T19:13:01","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T03:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/?p=8973"},"modified":"2026-02-08T19:13:01","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T03:13:01","slug":"how-to-play-fast-blues-licks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/how-to-play-fast-blues-licks\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Play Fast Blues Licks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a bit of a &#8220;trick&#8221; to playing fast in the style of Gary Moore, Walter Trout, Johnny Winter, and others&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Today I&#8217;ll show you how it works, grab your guitar \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\/ehv61TPdfwI?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>As always, timing is essential. And this is just one of the many skills we cover in <a href=\"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/get-blues-guitar-unleashed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Blues Guitar Unleashed,<\/a> in case you want to check that out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a bit of a &#8220;trick&#8221; to playing fast in the style of Gary Moore, Walter Trout, Johnny Winter, and others&#8230; Today I&#8217;ll show you how it works, grab your guitar \ud83d\ude42 As always, timing is essential. And this is just one of the many skills we cover in Blues Guitar Unleashed, in case you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8974,"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\/8973"}],"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=8973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8975,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8973\/revisions\/8975"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}