Day 4 - 12 bar blues for late stage beginners

Course: 14 Day Late Beginner Bootcamp

In this video

We look at a brand new genre and chord progression, the famous 12 bar blues! The aim of this lesson is to commit a famous chord progression to memory, a chord progression which is used in thousands of songs!

In todays lesson, we look at a brand new genre and chord progression, the famous 12 bar blues!

The aim of this session is to commit a famous chord progression to memory, a chord progression which is used in 1000s of songs!

We over the coming days, we will then look at how to play riffs and then a simple lead line over this same chord progression - a lead line that will then prepare you for learning to improvise over many famous songs!

Day 4 visual jam track - 12 bar blues in E chord progression

Day 4 key points - 12 bar blues in E chord progression

  • 12 bar blues is a common chord progression form in blues, rock, pop, country and most other genres of western popular music!

  • This progression uses the I, IV and V chords (1, 4 and 5, commonly written as roman numerals to indicate it refers to chords in a key aka Nashville Number System)

Next Up: Day 5 - Essential blues riffs for late beginners

Well done! Let's jump into the next lesson of the course.

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