Thank for anyone answer my questions can the framework of 12 bar blues be changed? I mean:for example,the fourth bar must be the?chord in the taching video of adam(if iI don't mistake it ).But I have seen a teaching material called ?Teach yourself blues harmonica 10 eassy lessions?by Peter Gelling,he said the fourth bar have no chord. what's wrong?or I am just mistake it.
Before I understood the concept of the 12 bars and chord changes I struggled with the concept, even after watching several videos, even Adams. So whatever reason this video here gave me that A-ha! moment. The video is somewhat chaotic and has that fingernails on the chalkboard quality but... it gets the point across.
---------- Go ahead and play the blues if it'll make you happy. -Dan Castellaneta
Even more basic. I think it may have been one of Tony Glover's books: Draw 2 sixteen times Blow 4 eight times Draw 2 eight times Draw 4 four times Blow 4 four times Draw 4 eight times Now you have 12-bar blues
Last Edited by on Jul 08, 2012 9:13 PM
Sounds like maybe instead of saying that "the fourth bar have no chord" Peter might have been trying to say that the first four bars have the ONE chord. Anyhow that's the way it is most of the time, but yeah, like eharp says, there are some variations.
If you listen to a lot of blues you have probably been hearing it all along without paying it much attention and you might already play well over the chord changes instinctively. Sometimes it takes just a little while before you can see the structure on paper and reconcile the concept with what your ears are hearing.
Last Edited by on Jul 09, 2012 12:49 AM
@groyster1 - Good point! I hadn't even realized that because by the time "I got it" I was already playing a turnaround. It's automatic, but now I need to build up some more turnarounds that are automatic too! ---------- Go ahead and play the blues if it'll make you happy. -Dan Castellaneta
