{"id":8,"date":"2015-08-08T01:04:22","date_gmt":"2015-08-08T01:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mcsguitar.com\/?p=8"},"modified":"2015-08-08T01:04:22","modified_gmt":"2015-08-08T01:04:22","slug":"blue-blues-easy-12-bar-blues-for-solo-or-duo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcsguitar.com\/index.php\/2015\/08\/08\/blue-blues-easy-12-bar-blues-for-solo-or-duo\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Blue Blues&#8221; Easy 12 bar blues for solo or duo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is an easy blues arrangement I often use.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.noteflight.com\/scores\/view\/1cf18aafe47eb16459cbe3150f22a93d321bd526\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Blue Blues&#8221; arranged by MCS.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>One guitarist can play the single notes puntcuated by chords, or two can play&#8211;one the notes, the other the chords.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve had a lot of fun with this.\u00a0 Remember it&#8217;s the blues and improvising is encouraged.<\/p>\n<p>The 12 bar blues form is used in many songs including Elvis&#8217; &#8220;Hound Dog,&#8221; Muddy Waters&#8217; &#8220;Train Fare Blues,&#8221; many songs by Eric Clapton and even Henry Mancini&#8217;s &#8220;Baby Elephant Walk.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The link will take you to a Noteflight page and you can hear the song by clicking the red arrow in the lower left corner of the screen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is an easy blues arrangement I often use. &#8220;Blue Blues&#8221; arranged by MCS. One guitarist can play the single notes puntcuated by chords, or two can play&#8211;one the notes, the other the chords.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve had a lot of fun with this.\u00a0 Remember it&#8217;s the blues and improvising is encouraged. The 12 bar blues form &#8230; <a title=\"&#8220;Blue Blues&#8221; Easy 12 bar blues for solo or duo\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/mcsguitar.com\/index.php\/2015\/08\/08\/blue-blues-easy-12-bar-blues-for-solo-or-duo\/\" aria-label=\"More on &#8220;Blue Blues&#8221; Easy 12 bar blues for solo or duo\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","category-noteflight-scores"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcsguitar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcsguitar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcsguitar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcsguitar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcsguitar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mcsguitar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9,"href":"https:\/\/mcsguitar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions\/9"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcsguitar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcsguitar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcsguitar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}