{"id":78250,"date":"2017-02-05T01:18:12","date_gmt":"2017-02-05T01:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.aws.dancingastronaut.com\/?p=274538"},"modified":"2017-02-05T01:18:12","modified_gmt":"2017-02-05T01:18:12","slug":"watch-john-mayer-take-on-live-edm-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/earthquakemix.com\/boom\/?p=78250","title":{"rendered":"Watch John Mayer take on \u2018Live EDM\u2019 [Video]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tropical house&#8217;s mellow atmosphere give off vibes reminiscent of mellow, Indie-leaning rock akin to that of Jack Johnson or John Mayer. The latter of those two names seems to have also recognized the stylistic similarity between the genre and his own music, and subsequently endeavored to take on the style with nothing but an electric guitar.<\/p><p>In a video uploaded to his Instagram account,\u00a0John Mayer do a rather expert\u00a0job of replicating a tropical house song by tapping on the guitar&#8217;s body while strumming out light, airy chords that paint images of beaches and margaritas. If ever\u00a0put out as a studio release, the song would certainly sound at home\u00a0in a <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/dancingastronaut.com\/tag\/kygo\">Kygo<\/a> set.<\/p><p>Watch the action unfold in the video below:<\/p><blockquote\nclass=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 658px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-version=\"7\"><div\nstyle=\"padding: 8px;\"><div\nstyle=\"background: #F8F8F8; line-height: 0; margin-top: 40px; padding: 62.43055555555556% 0; text-align: center; width: 100%;\"><\/div><p\nstyle=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\"><a\nstyle=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BP_4snPD9_H\/\" >A video posted by johnmayer (@johnmayer)<\/a> on <time\nstyle=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;\" datetime=\"2017-02-02T05:54:44+00:00\">Feb 1, 2017 at 9:54pm PST<\/time><\/p><\/div><\/blockquote><p><script src=\"http:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js?eec833\" async=\"\" defer=\"defer\"><\/script><\/p><p><em>H\/T: <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.youredm.com\/2017\/02\/03\/john-mayer-tries-hand-live-edm-actually-kills\/\">Your EDM<\/a><\/em><\/p><p><strong>Read More:<\/strong><\/p><p\nclass=\"item-title\"><a\ntitle=\"IN\u00c9Z gives Roxette\u2019s classic \u2018Listen To Your Heart\u2019 a 21st century dance pop twist\" href=\"http:\/\/dancingastronaut.com\/2017\/02\/inez-gives-roxettes-classic-listen-heart-21st-century-dance-pop-makerover\/\"><span\nclass=\"main-category\">I<\/span>N\u00c9Z gives Roxette\u2019s classic \u2018Listen To Your Heart\u2019 a 21st century dance pop twist<\/a><\/p><p\nclass=\"item-title\"><a\ntitle=\"Lanui \u2013 Back (Original Mix)\" href=\"http:\/\/dancingastronaut.com\/2017\/01\/lanui-back\/\">Lanui \u2013 Back (Original Mix)<\/a><\/p><p\nclass=\"item-title\"><a\ntitle=\"Listen to Major Lazer\u2019s dancehall set from Burning Man\" href=\"http:\/\/dancingastronaut.com\/2016\/11\/listen-major-lazers-sunset-performance-burning-man\/\">Listen to Major Lazer\u2019s dancehall set from Burning Man<\/a><\/p> <img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DancingAstronaut\/~4\/4KvdDc1o-y0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Mayer proves that tropical house is doable with just an electric guitar and his two hands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/earthquakemix.com\/boom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78250"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/earthquakemix.com\/boom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/earthquakemix.com\/boom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/earthquakemix.com\/boom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/earthquakemix.com\/boom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/earthquakemix.com\/boom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78251,"href":"http:\/\/earthquakemix.com\/boom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78250\/revisions\/78251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/earthquakemix.com\/boom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/earthquakemix.com\/boom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/earthquakemix.com\/boom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}