Griff here from Blues Guitar Unleashed
The Blues is a funny thing in the sense that it is both a style and a form.
It's a "huh?" and a "what?" - I know, makes perfect sense right?
We all know what a style of music is. We have rock music, jazz music, blues music, country music, soul music and folk music, just to name a few.
But what exactly is a form? Believe it or not, most blues has the same chord structure, that is called the form.
In the case of the blues, we call it a 12 bar blues. There is also an 8 bar blues, but that's very rare by comparison.
So today's lesson is all about the 12 bar blues and how to know, immediately, what the 3 chords are that you'll need to play a blues song that follows the 12 bar blues form.
There's a lot of music that we might call "bluesy." That's referring more to the style than the form.
There are also songs that follow the 12 bar blues form, Johnny B. Goode by Chuck Berry comes to mind, that most people consider Rock & Roll, but the form is a 12 bar blues.
Learning the blues form is important because you can go to any open jam on any stage in any town and if someone says play a "blues in C" you'll know what to do now.
That's all for now, head over to http://bluesguitarunleashed.com/lessons/12barchords and get started.
Talk soon,
Griff
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