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 ...

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 ...

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.