The Basics of Playing 12-Bar Blues Guitar

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Okay for this segment we'll be learning how to play the 12 bar blues. 12 bar blues is a format that's been around probrably since the turn of century. It has permeated itself into popular music, expecially in rock and roll. It is basically the forerunner of rock and roll. The 12 bar blues is 12 measures broken up and using basically only three different chords changing. 7th chords each. A one 7th chord, a four 7th chord and a five 7th chord. With these chords you can create a certain feel a certain riff and be able to explore what we know about scales and soloing and note manipulation to create solos. It's a great way to network with other musicians and play something if you don't know the same songs. You can always rely on the 12 bar blues as something to get started on. So, we're going to learn a little bit about each mode that we use for this. For the 1 7th chord we'll be using the mixellian mode. We'll be using the Dorian in the same position for the four 7th. For the five 7th we'll be using our old friend the Major chord.

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