{"id":32,"date":"2013-01-11T00:39:20","date_gmt":"2013-01-11T00:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bearmetalproductions.com\/news\/?p=32"},"modified":"2013-05-31T13:28:36","modified_gmt":"2013-05-31T13:28:36","slug":"artist-profile-big-ted-orson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bearmetalproductions.com\/news\/artist-profile-big-ted-orson\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist Profile: &#8216;Big Ted&#8217; Orson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bearmetalproductions.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Big-Ted-Orson-Lead-Guitar-Flying-V-800x651.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-36 aligncenter\" alt=\"Big Ted Orson Lead Guitar Flying V \" src=\"http:\/\/bearmetalproductions.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Big-Ted-Orson-Lead-Guitar-Flying-V-800x651-300x244.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"488\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bearmetalproductions.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Big-Ted-Orson-Lead-Guitar-Flying-V-800x651-300x244.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bearmetalproductions.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Big-Ted-Orson-Lead-Guitar-Flying-V-800x651-624x507.jpg 624w, https:\/\/bearmetalproductions.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Big-Ted-Orson-Lead-Guitar-Flying-V-800x651.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Artist: &#8216;Big Ted&#8217; Orson<br \/>\nGuitar: Custom Flying V Copy, Bear Metal Pickups, standard tuning<br \/>\nMusical Inspiration: Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Slash, The Edge.<\/p>\n<p>Big Ted&#8217;s playing style is based around the blues and harmonic minor scales, which he plays with strong, melodic sensibilities. He favors pentatonic minor scales played in &#8220;blues box&#8221; positions for solos, with occasional Aeolian and Dorian modes, and Mixolydian and pentatonic major scales thrown in.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">People ask me how, as a bear, I manage to play the guitar. Well of course I use a lot of Barre chords!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Big Ted (@BigTedRocks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BigTedRocks\/status\/307564872592392192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 1, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist: &#8216;Big Ted&#8217; Orson Guitar: Custom Flying V Copy, Bear Metal Pickups, standard tuning Musical Inspiration: Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Slash, The Edge. Big Ted&#8217;s playing style is based around the blues and harmonic minor scales, which he plays with strong, melodic sensibilities. He favors pentatonic minor scales played in &#8220;blues box&#8221; positions for solos, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bearmetalproductions.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bearmetalproductions.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bearmetalproductions.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bearmetalproductions.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bearmetalproductions.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/bearmetalproductions.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35,"href":"https:\/\/bearmetalproductions.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions\/35"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bearmetalproductions.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bearmetalproductions.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bearmetalproductions.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}