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 Country, Rockabilly, Rock and Jazz as well. In this lesson there are two examples of 12 bar Blues in the key of C. Both progressions make use of the chords C, F and G in the right hand part. For more on 12 Bar Blues and related styles, see Progressive Blues Piano Method .
In this example the chords are played off the beat, while the left hand plays bass notes made up of chord tones on each beat.
Class Sessions
1- Other Keys, 16th Notes, Putting it all Together
2- New Rhythms, Chords and Sounds
3- The 12 Bar Blues
4- The Triplet
5- Swing Rhythms
6- Blue Notes
7- 3rd Intervals
8- Seventh Chords
9- Using Seventh Chords
10- Basic Country Sounds
11- The Key of G
12- Bass Runs
13- The Major Pentatonic Scale
14- Sixteenth Notes
15- Grace Notes
16- Putting it all Together
17- Notes on the Piano
18- Inversions and Arpeggios
19- Using Chords for Accompaniment
20- Chord Inversions
21- Left Hand Variations
22- Alternating Bass Style
23- Eighth Note Rhythms
24- Two Handed Accompaniment
25- INTRODUCTION
26- The Chords C, F and G
27- The C7 Chord
28- The C Major Chord
29- D Major Chord Inversions
30- Broken Chords
31- Syncopation
32- Enharmonic Notes
33- The Shuffle
34- C Major Chord Inversions
35- Chord Charts
36- Easy Chord Table
37- The G Major Chord
38- The Blues Scale in G
39- The D7 Chord
40- G Major Chord Inversions
41- The F Major Chord
42- The F7 Chord
43- F Major Chord Inversions