{"id":9133,"date":"2026-10-24T16:04:34","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T23:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/?p=9133"},"modified":"2026-10-22T10:12:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T17:12:11","slug":"easy-doesnt-have-to-mean-lame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/easy-doesnt-have-to-mean-lame\/","title":{"rendered":"Easy Doesn&#8217;t Have To Mean Lame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I find a common misconception that if something is &#8220;easy,&#8221; then it&#8217;s also kind of lame&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So in today&#8217;s video, I&#8217;m going to take one of the licks from solo 1 of 5 Easy Southern Rock Solos and show you how it would sound without the element of syncopation in it (hint, yeah, it&#8217;s lame) and then show you how easy it is to add that syncopation and make it sound like a real melody.<\/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\/9Zq_liSG96o?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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I find a common misconception that if something is &#8220;easy,&#8221; then it&#8217;s also kind of lame&#8230; So in today&#8217;s video, I&#8217;m going to take one of the licks from solo 1 of 5 Easy Southern Rock Solos and show you how it would sound without the element of syncopation in it (hint, yeah, it&#8217;s lame) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9135,"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\/9133"}],"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=9133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9134,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9133\/revisions\/9134"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}