{"id":6,"date":"2012-06-02T17:36:16","date_gmt":"2012-06-02T17:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thebluesguitarplayer.com\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2022-12-23T19:06:22","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T19:06:22","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.thebluesguitarplayer.com\/?page_id=6","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"6\" class=\"elementor elementor-6\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-1a0319b3 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"1a0319b3\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-2bb734b4\" data-id=\"2bb734b4\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-35b8bdf7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"35b8bdf7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.18.0 - 08-12-2023 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p>Hi Fellow Blues Enthusiast<br \/><br \/>and welcome to my website.<br \/><br \/>My name is Peter Jones and I&#8217;ve been learning Blues Guitar for about 8 years, on and off, sadly mainly off for the last 4 years (I&#8217;ll explain why in a moment).<br \/><br \/>This is how I first got into the blues and why I put this site up.<br \/><br \/>I&#8217;d been playing guitar, badly, just strumming open chords and the occcassional bar chord, for about 8 years. At first, that was quite exciting but as the years went by and I didn&#8217;t seem to get any better,\u00a0I finally\u00a0decided the time had come to do something about it. &#8220;Time I had lessons&#8221; I thought.<br \/><br \/>So I went down to my local music shop because I remembered the guy who ran the shop just doodling (if that&#8217;s the right words) some blues one day, when I was in there getting some new strings. His licks were so cool. So I asked &#8220;Do you give lessons?&#8221;. He did and that was where it all started.<br \/><br \/>&#8220;It&#8217;ll take me 7 years to make you a Blues Guitarist &#8220;he said, so I told him we&#8217;d better get on with it because I&#8217;m middle aged and time isn&#8217;t on my side (although\u00a0I do think that blues guitarists, like fine wine, get better with age).<br \/><br \/>So we started, most weeks for 4 years. It was going ok. I had developed a nice vibrato, had mastered my pull offs and hammer-ons,\u00a0and was weaning myself off\u00a0pure pentatonic and blues scales solos and was moving into the mixalydian and\u00a0dorian modes.<br \/><br \/>Then came the credit crunch. Unfortunately that was not a great time financially for my business or myself and so, with great regret,\u00a0I had to put the blues guitar lessons on hold. I was stuck 4 years into my\u00a07 year transition into a decent blues player.<br \/><br \/>So here&#8217;s the purpose behind this site. First up, I just like the idea of having a resource where I, and others can post their thoughts, tips and chat about blues. Also where we can compile links\u00a0to video of our favourite blues players doing their stuff. And also, being completely upfront, where I can post links to resources which may pay me a bit in commissions which I can then use to fund the next 3 years of learning the blues.<br \/><br \/>This is a work in progress. If you don&#8217;t find your favourite blues player here, it doesn&#8217;t mean they aren&#8217;t coming, just that I haven&#8217;t yet got around to it.<br \/><br \/>But do feel free to send me an email with a request if you like and I&#8217;ll see what I can do.<br \/><br \/>Here&#8217;s to cool blues riffs<br \/><br \/>Peter<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Fellow Blues Enthusiast and welcome to my website. My name is Peter Jones and I&#8217;ve been learning Blues Guitar for about 8 years, on and off, sadly mainly off for the last 4 years (I&#8217;ll explain why in a moment). 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