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Blues is that it is based around the I - IV - V pattern also know as the Tonic, Subdominant and Dominant. In my first book you learned that the way the guitar is tuned in standard tuning leads to all kinds of useful patterns that give you insight into how music theory works. And it also allows you to improvise freely all over the fretboard.
In music, the V-IV-I turnaround, or blues turnaround is one of several patterns traditionally found in the twelve-bar blues, and commonly found in rock and roll.
build classic blues licks. You start off by learning how to practice each lick in this book, before diving into the licks themselves, and finally learning full blues solos. The goal of this eBook is to open your ears, mind, and hands to the sounds that make up the classic blues vocabulary.
The key only gives you one small piece of the puzzle. You need to know what are the chords in the progression, when are chords changing, and how much musical time, or measures, are spent on each chord.
In this edition of the Theory Corner, we’ll take a look at an excerpt from bluesman Dennis McCumber’s book, The Total Blues Guitarist, available through Alfred Publishing. Dennis will introduce you to the concept of creating blues intros and endings from the turnaround.
Understanding the basics of these rhythms, how the most common blues rhythms are constructed and the rhythm used in the blues shuffle will help to set you on your way to become a killer blues rhythm guitarist.
In technical terms, the 12 bar blues is a chord progression that lasts for 12 bars, or measures. These 12 bars repeat throughout the course of the song. The chord progression is typically made up of 3 chords. Specifically, the 12 bar blues is based around the I, IV and V chords of any given key.
