V changes and come up with some soloing ideas that enhance your melodic sensibility – and add a bit of fire along the way ...

This is the progression you’ll be playing over. It’s the most common form of the 12-bar blues, but it is common in music to see the arrangement of chords moved about a bit. Notice that there are only ...

This is the most common 12-bar blues form (aka I-IV-V progression). Play through the progression using only root notes if it is new to you. Jazz style 12-bar blues. A few extra chord changes and, in ...

In bar 1, the 12-bar blues form begins, and over C7 in this example I start with a B.B. King-style lick that’s based on a combination of C major pentatonic (C, D, E, G, A) ...

I’d like to begin by offering a cool country/blues-style fingerpicked rhythm guitar part that’s played over a ... four - five) 12-bar blues form in the key of A. In this key, the I (one ...

Twelve-Bar Walkabout. This fun walkabout evokes 1950s and 1960s rock ’n’ roll and early pop styles. The idea is to learn how the 12-bar blues structure works, starting with single notes (one ...

The Memphis Blues by WC Handy changed popular music for ever, introducing the blues form to the US public, ... another 12-bar blues piece with a 16-bar habanera section.

There is really only so much that can be done with the traditional 12-bar blues form. It was that limitation that helped give rise to rhythm & blues and soul music and cross-pollinated jazz and ...