{"id":1878,"date":"2011-08-16T16:26:06","date_gmt":"2011-08-16T21:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/?p=1878"},"modified":"2011-08-16T16:26:23","modified_gmt":"2011-08-16T21:26:23","slug":"west-end-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/1878\/","title":{"rendered":"West End Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I stumbled upon Louis Armstrong&#8217;s version of &#8220;West End Blues&#8221; from 1928:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NmmFKu4FEbc?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I decided to transcribe the chords.  I have a student who is very interested in the blues, and I thought this would sufficiently scare him (and also teach him something).  Also, it was a personal challenge to figure it out accurately.  Some chords I even had to guess at.  The bass is hard to hear, and sometimes the rest of the band doesn&#8217;t fill in the entire chords.  Despite that I pieced together a pretty accurate transcription.  I&#8217;m pretty proud of it!<\/p>\n<p>If you can play this, have fun!  If you can tell if I&#8217;m wrong on certain chords, I&#8217;d appreciate feedback.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/West-End-Blues.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/West-End-Blues-231x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"West End Blues\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1879\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I stumbled upon Louis Armstrong&#8217;s version of &#8220;West End Blues&#8221; from 1928: I decided to transcribe the chords. I have a student who is very interested in the blues, and I thought this would sufficiently scare him (and also teach him something). Also, it was a personal challenge to figure it out accurately. Some chords [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}