12 Bar Blues - Music Theory Academy - What is Twelve Bar Blues?

Try this 12 Bar Blues Turnaround in the key of A! I’m using three chords in this: A7 | D9 | E9 as the main progression. Very standard 12 bar blues pattern. I throw in the F9 as a quick passing chord down to the E9 to create some tension and you can hear so many great blues players do this! The idea here is to keep the melody note the same throughout the turnaround, in this case an A. By doing this we create a build up of tension as the lower note descends chromatically. Finally the walk up on th

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