{"id":305,"date":"2010-08-11T16:58:04","date_gmt":"2010-08-11T21:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/byronleonard.com\/blog\/?p=305"},"modified":"2010-08-11T16:59:52","modified_gmt":"2010-08-11T21:59:52","slug":"guitar-lesson-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/byronleonard.com\/blog\/?p=305","title":{"rendered":"Guitar Lesson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I started working up &#8220;Blues Break in &#8216;G'&#8221; on Monday. It&#8217;s the third of the songs in G in Kenny Sultan&#8217;s <a title=\"Kenny Sultan. Introduction to Acoustic Blues. Anaheim Hills, CA: Centerstream Pub-lishing, 2001, 38 p.\" href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.halleonard.com\/product\/viewproduct.do?itemid=283&amp;lid=1&amp;keywords=kenny%20sultan&amp;subsiteid=1&amp;\"><em>Introduction to Acoustic Blues<\/em><\/a> (2001, p. 26) and is a continuation of &#8220;Step It Up And Go.&#8221; I went over it in my lesson today with <a title=\"James Goelitz, guitar\/bass instructor\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kaganandgaines.com\/p-132042-james-goelitz-guitarbass-instructor.aspx\">Jim Goelitz<\/a>. I was confused by a chord fingering that Sultan suggested, but Jim said the way I was fingering it was better. There are still some rough spots when I play the song, but it&#8217;s mainly getting my fingers used to slightly different patterns. The songs have a very different feel than those in E and A and overall seem easier.<\/p>\n<p>We also talked about chords and Jim introduced me to the concept of &#8220;<a title=\"A semitone, also called a half step or a half tone, is the smallest musical interval commonly used in Western tonal music\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Semitone\">half-stepping<\/a>&#8221; into a chord change. It&#8217;s something I had often heard in music and even played, but I wasn&#8217;t familiar with the term. It consists of leading in to a chord change by playing a chord a half-step (one fret) above or below the next chord. This adds interest to the chording.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started working up &#8220;Blues Break in &#8216;G&#8217;&#8221; on Monday. It&#8217;s the third of the songs in G in Kenny Sultan&#8217;s Introduction to Acoustic Blues (2001, p. 26) and is a continuation of &#8220;Step It Up And Go.&#8221; I went over it in my lesson today with Jim Goelitz. I was confused by a chord [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,42,12],"tags":[179,15,33,32,34],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/byronleonard.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/byronleonard.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/byronleonard.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/byronleonard.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/byronleonard.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=305"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/byronleonard.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311,"href":"http:\/\/byronleonard.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions\/311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/byronleonard.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/byronleonard.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/byronleonard.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}