The 12 Bar Blues

Lesson 2/46 | Study Time: 5 Min
Course: Funk and R&B Keyboard Method
The 12 Bar Blues

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 Funk, 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.

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1- Basic Chords, Rhythms and Sounds 2- Transposing 3- Using 7th Chords 4- Sixteenth Notes 5- Seventh Chords 6- Seventh Chords, Transposing, Sixteenth Note Rhythms 7- 16th Note Studies 8- Two Handed Rhythms 9- More Minor Chords 10- Eighth Note Rhythms 11- Major Chord Chart 12- Minor Chords 13- Two Handed Riffs 14- LESSON NINE 15- The Blues Scale 16- Blues Notes, Riffs, Eighth Note Rhythms and Minor Chords 17- The Major Chord 18- More on Inversions 19- Introduction 20- Chord Inversions 21- Rhythms 22- Blue Notes 23- The G Major Chord 24- The 12 Bar Blues 25- Riffs 26- Chord Numbers 27- The C Major Chord 28- Call and Response 29- G7 Chord Inversions 30- The F Major Chord 31- F Minor Chord Inversions 32- Slash Chords 33- C Major Chord Inversions 34- The C Minor Chord 35- Minor Chord Chart 36- Blues Scale Riffs 37- Enharmonic Notes 38- Seventh Chord Chart 39- The C7 Chord 40- G Minor Chord 41- C Minor Chord Inversions 42- G Major Chord Inversions 43- The D7 Chord 44- G Minor Chord Inversions 45- F Major Chord Inversions 46- The F7 Chord

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