{"id":658,"date":"2025-05-19T13:25:31","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T13:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/muzictrain.com\/blog\/?p=658"},"modified":"2025-05-21T21:30:35","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T21:30:35","slug":"3-4-variations-guitar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/muzictrain.com\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/05\/19\/3-4-variations-guitar\/","title":{"rendered":"3\/4 Variations &#8211; Guitar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can easily make your strumming more interesting when you&#8217;re playing in 3\/4 time. Here are a couple of variations. The main point is that you should emphasize the first beat. So it&#8217;s like this: &#8220;ONE-two-three&#8221;. Of course how much you should emphasize that first beat will depend on the song. Generally speaking when you want to feature the &#8220;waltz-like&#8221; character of the song you should increase the emphasis.<br \/>\nYou can enhance the emphasis, and make the accompaniment even more interesting, by striking a bass note for the first beat.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"vimeo-player\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1058399211?h=3953927917\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\"    allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can easily make your strumming more interesting when you&#8217;re playing in 3\/4 time. Here are a couple of variations. The main point is that you should emphasize the first beat. So it&#8217;s like this: &#8220;ONE-two-three&#8221;. Of course how much you should emphasize that first beat will depend on the song. Generally speaking when you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,51,7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-guitar-songs","category-guitar-tips","category-playalong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/muzictrain.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/muzictrain.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/muzictrain.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muzictrain.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muzictrain.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/muzictrain.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":663,"href":"https:\/\/muzictrain.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions\/663"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muzictrain.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/muzictrain.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muzictrain.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muzictrain.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}