The 12 Bar Blues
The 12 bar Blues is a pattern of chords which repeats every 12 bars. It is the most common progression in Blues music, and is used extensively in Rock and Jazz as well. In this lesson there are two examples of 12 bar blues in the key of C. (For more on keys, see Progressive Keyboard Technique ). Both progressions make use of the chords C, F and G in the right hand part. In the next example, the chords are played as arpeggios.
Class Sessions
1- Shuffle in the Key of G
2- Using Ties
3- Improvisation
4- Chord Inversions
5- Blues Using Inversions
6- Chord Numbers
7- Broken Chords
8- Grace Notes
9- New Notes, Keys and Rhythms
10- The Key of G
11- Chords and Blues Notes
12- Broken Chords in G
13- The Blues Scale in G
14- Two Octave Blues Scale
15- Seventh Chords
16- Blues Using 7th Chords
17- Mixing Chords and Scales
18- New Orleans Rhythms
19- More New Orleans Style Blues
20- Combining Melodies and Accompaniment
21- Left Hand Chords
22- Blue Notes
23- The Blues Scale
24- 12 Bar Blues Using the Shuffle Rhythm
25- Using the Blues Scale
26- The 12 Bar Blues
27- Left Hand Accompaniment
28- Blues Scale Riffs with Accompaniment
29- The Major Chord
30- INTRODUCTION
31- Blues Rhythms, New Sounds
32- The Triplet
33- Blues Runs Using Triplets
34- Swing Rhythms
35- Enharmonic Notes
36- The 7th in the Left Hand Part
37- New Orleans Rhythm in G
38- G<sup>7</sup> Chord Inversions
39- Riffs
40- Section 1 Summary
41- The Turnaround
42- The Shuffle
43- The C<sup>7</sup> Chord
44- The D<sup>7</sup> Chord
45- The F<sup>7</sup> Chord