12 Bar Blues |
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12 Bar Blues |
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Dec 1 2007, 10:19 PM |
There a lot of different blues chord changes, fast blues, slow blues, Major blues, Minor blues, etc...
Some songs sounds blues but they have 8 or 10 bars as main structure. These chord changes I-IV-I-I-IV-IV-I-I-V-IV-I-V (or I-I-I-I-IV-IV-I-I-V-IV-I-I) are used very often and you should consider it a kind of "basic form". Last four bars (V-IV-I-V) are a peculiarity of the blues style. -------------------- ::: Main Gear ::: Guitars: Washburn N4 Vintage | Washburn N2 | Washburn WI67Pro | Washburn WG-587 | Washburn EA20B Amps: Laney GH50L (head) | Laney GS410 & GS212IE (cabinets) | Rocktron PROGAP Ultra (rack preamp) | Rocktron Velocity 150 (power amp) | Marshall VS230 (combo) FXs: Rocktron Intellifex + custom pedalboard (check my video demo) Other: Shredneck | Intellitouch PT10 tuner Picks: Esseti Picks Software & Recording Gear: Cubase 4 | Overloud TH1 | Mackie Onyx 400F | EZdrummer | Korg Pandora PX4D ------------------------------------------------------- myspace.com/jerryarcidiacono Check out my video lessons and instructor board! |
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Dec 1 2007, 10:21 PM |
You don't have to use dominant 7ths, majors will do, or minors, or power chards, its more about the degrees of the progression (I, IV, V etc) along with the minor pentatonic that makes the blues.
Dominant 7th chords can sound bad if you are a little out of tune as well. 12 bar as you wrote it is the traditional blues progression, but can you play other progressions? Sure, why not? -------------------- Check out my Instructor profile
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Dec 2 2007, 06:18 PM |
Experimtent with different voicings. Try majors\minors for I anv IV and a dominant one for V in the progression or other combinations with 9, 11 and 13 chord, less shuffled, slightly shuffled, heavy shuffled and slow.... Blues is very universal, you can play almost anything type of chord and rhythm in a basic I IV V blues progression. Just look at the signature and you will know what i mean.
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