{"id":9068,"date":"2026-06-26T18:09:34","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T01:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/?p=9068"},"modified":"2026-06-22T08:13:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T15:13:14","slug":"do-re-mi-country-soloing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/do-re-mi-country-soloing\/","title":{"rendered":"Do-Re-Mi Country Soloing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the scales we largely ignore in blues music is the &#8220;regular ole'&#8221; major scale &#8211; the Do-Re-Mi-Fa-So-La-Ti-Do scale (officially called a &#8220;diatonic&#8221; major scale.)<\/p>\n<p>But in country, it gets used often and has a beautiful sound &#8211; many folks often say it is &#8220;more melodic,&#8221; even though that doesn&#8217;t really make sense (we all know what we mean by that \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I thought I&#8217;d show you one of my favorite ways to play the scale and show you how you know if you can use it and how&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Also, don&#8217;t be afraid of this one&#8230; You&#8217;re always only 1 note away from a good one \ud83d\ude09<\/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\/dfShH2Nh2ZE?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>If you dig this you should check out <a href=\"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/get-5-easy-country-guitar-solos\/\">5 Easy Country Guitar Solos<\/a>, the 5th solo uses this chord progression and this style of soloing and it&#8217;s really nice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the scales we largely ignore in blues music is the &#8220;regular ole&#8217;&#8221; major scale &#8211; the Do-Re-Mi-Fa-So-La-Ti-Do scale (officially called a &#8220;diatonic&#8221; major scale.) But in country, it gets used often and has a beautiful sound &#8211; many folks often say it is &#8220;more melodic,&#8221; even though that doesn&#8217;t really make sense (we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9064,"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\/9068"}],"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=9068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9069,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9068\/revisions\/9069"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}