{"id":112,"date":"2012-02-03T14:48:32","date_gmt":"2012-02-03T20:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dansguitarstudio.com\/dansblog\/?p=112"},"modified":"2014-03-01T17:27:39","modified_gmt":"2014-03-01T23:27:39","slug":"local-singersongwriter-paul-stiegler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dansguitarstudio.com\/dansblog\/local-singersongwriter-paul-stiegler\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Singer\/Songwriter Paul Stiegler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pIIqAGKe6sc\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>This video is the first of (what I hope will be) a long series of interviews with local Twin Cities artists. At the end of the video, Paul Stiegler performs his <a title=\"UK Songwriting Contest\" href=\"http:\/\/www.songwritingcontest.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">2011 UK Songwriting Contest<\/a> winning love song &#8220;If This Was the Last Night We Had&#8221; which he co-wrote with Rob Crosby. You can listen to more of Paul&#8217;s music on his website: <a title=\"Paul Stiegler's Website\" href=\"http:\/\/broadjam.com\/paulstiegler\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/broadjam.com\/paulstiegler<\/a>, but I highly recommend that you hear him play live at the <a title=\"Bean Good Cafe\" href=\"http:\/\/www.beangoodcafe.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bean Good Cafe<\/a> in St. Louis Park this Saturday, Feb. 4 at 7pm. He will also be performing in Madison, WI at the <a title=\"The Brink Lounge\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thebrinklounge.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Brink Lounge<\/a> on March 16th.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>For you guitar players, check out the section of the video where Paul demonstrates how he uses Drop-D Tuning to make his chord progressions fuller and more interesting. Notice that he uses many of those chords when he performs &#8220;If This Was the Last Night We Had&#8221;. I will be sure to post some sheet music with some of the chords he uses soon!\u00a0<em><\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><em>The guitar that Paul uses is a <a title=\"Seagull Performer Cutaway Flame Maple QI\" href=\"http:\/\/www.seagullguitars.com\/seagull_perf_cwflame.html\" target=\"_blank\">Seagull\u00a0Performer Cutaway Flame Maple QI<\/a> which I had the pleasure of playing and was all-around impressed with the volume, fullness and feel especially for the price &#8211; $749 at Guitar Center.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This video is the first of (what I hope will be) a long series of interviews with local Twin Cities artists. At the end of the video, Paul Stiegler performs his 2011 UK Songwriting Contest winning love song &#8220;If This &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/dansguitarstudio.com\/dansblog\/local-singersongwriter-paul-stiegler\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":116,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[21,23,22,25,24],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-artists","tag-drop-d-tuning","tag-interview","tag-paul-stiegler","tag-songwriting","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dansguitarstudio.com\/dansblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dansguitarstudio.com\/dansblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dansguitarstudio.com\/dansblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dansguitarstudio.com\/dansblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dansguitarstudio.com\/dansblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/dansguitarstudio.com\/dansblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":282,"href":"http:\/\/dansguitarstudio.com\/dansblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions\/282"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dansguitarstudio.com\/dansblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dansguitarstudio.com\/dansblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dansguitarstudio.com\/dansblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dansguitarstudio.com\/dansblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}