Kristofer Dahl13th March 2008Awesome to see a new lesson from you Dejan
- and what a massive sound you have got there!
Marcus Lavendell13th March 2008Wohoo!! Cool!
Gabriel Leopardi13th March 2008Sounds great!
Carlos Carrillo13th March 2008Dejan!!!Really cool!!!
Joe Kataldo13th March 2008What a Blues Cool
Bogdan Radovic13th March 2008Great lesson Dejan!!
Thanks!
Muris Varajic13th March 2008Metal blues,kickin' and rollin'!!
Nick Kellie13th March 2008nice one!
Dejan Farkas13th March 2008Thanks guys
Ivan Milenkovic13th March 2008WOW! You really like those riffs man
DeepRoots13th March 2008Really powerfull sounding- cheers!
Toni Suominen13th March 2008Great lesson, and a brutal tone!
Martin la guitarra13th March 2008love it! thx dejan
Jerry Arcidiacono13th March 2008Strooong blues!!!
Danilo Capezzuto13th March 2008Evil blues!
The Uncreator13th March 2008Excellent stuff, Like Danilo said, its the evil blues!!
Nemanja Filipovic13th March 2008great man...it is like hevy metal blues
jammer9113th March 2008Reminds me of Pantera's Walk. This is a must learn.
Gerardo Siere13th March 2008Nice riffing
- Dejan Farkas13th March 2008
Thank you all, I'm glad you like it
Marcus Siepen13th March 2008Awesome lesson Dejan, when I read the title I expected something very different, but your heavy blues rocks big time.
JVM13th March 2008Cool Dejan, you laid it down man
Pablo Vazquez13th March 2008Cool! Well done man!
Capt.Z13th March 2008nice! my dad likes it too!
OrganisedConfusion13th March 2008This is rocking Dejan. Awesome full sound and kick ass blues
Hisham Al-Sanea13th March 2008very welldone Dejan ..nice 12 bar shuffle
thund3r66613th March 2008cool! You let me see an other face of blues... Great music
- Dejan Farkas13th March 2008
Very kind of you guys
Tuubsu14th March 2008A lor of POWER in this, very cool!
Juan M. Valero14th March 2008oh man, love this distortion !!!!
This lesson sounds great.- Dejan Farkas14th March 2008
Appreciated
SLASH9114th March 2008Awesome blues
- Carlos Carrillo14th March 2008
fantastic lesson!!!!!!
great Dejan 
David Wallimann15th March 2008Great quality there! I love the videos. Thanks!
- Dejan Farkas15th March 2008
Thanks guys, i combined here a traditional blues with a heavy sound, I guess I had too much energy at the moment
Luciana Segovia15th March 2008cooooooooooooooollllllllll
- Dejan Farkas16th March 2008
Thanks Luciana
Hammerhead10th April 2008Ahhh yes!....thank you!
- Dejan Farkas11th April 2008
You're welcome
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Intro to 12 Bar Blues
blues, acoustic, rhythm, beginner, 12 bar blues, strumming, shuffle rhythm, easyby John Hatcher - Difficulty3
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Easy Fingerstyle Blues
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Hi there and welcome to 12-bar Blues Shuffle :)
The 12-bar blues is one of the most popular chord progressions in modern music. This progression has twelve bars cycle and that explains the name. It is also called I-IV-V (one-four-five) progression since we have tonic (I), sub-dominant (IV) and dominant (V) chords, another words, the progression is built on 1st, 4th and 5th intervals of a scale (intervals are marked with roman numerals), so it can be E-A-B, A-D-E, etc.
There are many variations of 12-bar blues, this one is 'quick-to-four' variation, with IV (sub-dominant) interval in the second bar, so the progression goes as following:
01 E I
02 A IV
03 E I
04 E I
05 A IV
06 A IV
07 E I
08 E I
09 B V
10 A IV
11 E I
12 B V
The shuffle rhythm is based on eight-note-triplets, and it's quite powerful in combination with a walking bass and added root/sixth and root/flat seventh chords.
Key signature: E Major
Time signature: 4/4
Tempo: 100 bpm
Just add some drive and let's shuffle, enjoy this lesson. Feedback is welcome :)
Dejan