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.
Both progressions make use of the chords C, F and G in the right hand part. The left hand part contains a Bb note, which is not one of the notes of any of the chords here. This note comes from the Blues Scale, which will be discussed in detail later in the book.
Class Sessions
1- Basic Chords, Rhythms and Sounds
2- Alternating Octaves
3- Blues Scales in E
4- The Blues Scale
5- The Minor Pentatonic Scale
6- Minor Keys
7- Using Ties
8- How to Transpose
9- Chord Construction
10- Scale Tone Chords
11- More New Chords
12- Turnaround Progressions
13- Combining Major and Minor Chords
14- Minor Chords
15- New Chords and Keys, Transposing, Pentatonic and Blues Scale Riffs
16- Using Keyboard Voices
17- INTRODUCTION
18- The Major Chord
19- Creating a Part
20- The 12 Bar Blues
21- Chord Inversions
22- Eighth Note Rhythms
23- A Major Scale
24- The C Major Chord
25- New Chords in the Key of G
26- Slash Chords
27- Intervals
28- Riffs
29- D Minor Chord Inversions
30- C Major Chord Inversions
31- The Chromatic Scale
32- A Minor Chord Inversions
33- E Minor Chord Inversions
34- D Major Chord Inversions
35- Chord Diagrams
36- G Major Chord Inversions
37- B Diminished Chord Inversions
38- Interval Names
39- B Minor Chord Inversions
40- The G Major Chord
41- F Major Chord Inversions
42- F<span class="symbolA">#</span> Diminished Chord Inversions
43- The F Major Chord