Furthering our chord and harmony vocab is one of the most important ways to take our songwriting and musicianship skills to higher levels. In this guitar lesson, I will go over a variety of ideas (many seemingly unrelated) that all aim to make you (and I) better players and songwriters.
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The 12 bar blues progression is one of the first chord progressions that any guitar player learns. There is a nearly endless number of variations of the 12 bar blues progression. Some of these variations are so jazzy to the point of losing any connection to the blues. This variation is not on that extreme end of the spectrum. While using some common jazz chords, this 12 bar blues progressionj still maintains a very bluesy feel.
Above is the tab for the blues progression. Play each chord as quarter notes. Really not much to this one, but it is a great progression. Record it and improvise some blues over it.
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