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12 Bar Blues Basic Strumming + Triplet Turnarounds

Hi lovely people, I’ve got a 12 Bar Blues Progression for you today with a basic strumming pattern, a basic turnaround and some extra fancy triplet turnarounds to spice things up.

Basic 12 Bar Blues Progression

This 12 Bar Blues shuffle is in the key of E and moves through the following 12 bar chord progression:

/ E7 / E7 / E7 / E7 / A7 / A7 / E7 / E7 / B7 / A7 / E7 / B7 /

The last four bars of the progression function as the turnaround. You can play this by strumming through the pattern / B7 / A7 / E7 / B7 / or finish it with a more enhanced turnaround that makes the progression sound really cool. Eventually you want to learn both. If you’re a beginner just start with the basic turnaround.

Basic 12 Bar Blues Strumming Pattern

For the strumming pattern we play: ↓↓↑↑↓↑ “down-down-up-up-down-up” for each bar / measure throughout the entire progression.

Below there’s a video lesson where I explain the entire 12 bar blues with the strumming patten and different blues turnarounds.

Enjoy!

Wonderful Wednesday Blues Lick

By Klaus Crow 4 Comments

Hi folks, I wish you a wonderful Wednesday, and with that a Wonderful Wednesday Blues Lick! This blues lick has got slides, double stops and cool bends. I guess it’s more of an intermediate blues lick, but if you are a beginner and you play it slowly you might can get away with it ;)

Blues Lick in the key of E

We’re playing a blues lick that is derived from the minor pentatonic blues scale and we’re playing it in the key of E. The lick contains the blue note (b5) and the major 6th, which makes it fresh, rich and modern sounding. It’s a pretty damn cool lick. 😎👍

Below you can find the tabs and video lesson to learn this Wonderful Wednesday blues lick.

Enjoy!

12 Bar Blues Lick – Riff with Blues Turnaround

By Klaus Crow 5 Comments

Hi amazing people, today I’ve got 12 Bar Blues Riff / Lick with a blues turnaround for you on the table. It’s it’s raw, groovy and in your face. This is a real nice complete riff blues progression to play on your porch while enjoying the sunset with a cold beer.

12 Bar Blues Riff / Lick + Turnaround

This 12 Bar Blues is in the key of G and moves through 12 bar chord progression. The riff contains hammer-ons and a cool technique to give the blues some extra oomph.

The chord progression is as follows:

/ G7 / G7 / G7 / G7 / C7 / C7 / G7 / G7 / D7 / C7 / G7 / D7 /

A second guitarist could literally play this chord progression while you’re playing the 12 bar blues riff or you could record the progression on your phone and play the riff over the progression.

If you want to know how to play the chords for this progression check out How to Play and Apply Dominant 7th Chords

Below you can find the Tablature and video lesson for this 12 Bar Blues Riff:

Have a great one!

7PM FABULOUS BLUES LICK

By Klaus Crow 4 Comments

Hi guitar friends, today I’m gonna teach you the 7PM FABULOUS BLUES LICK. I recorded this video lesson at around 7 PM Central European time, and the lick sounds kind of fabulous don’t you think so? 😉 so there you have it. 😄

Blues Lick in the key of A

We’re playing a lick that is created around the pentatonic blues scale and finds itself in the key of A and contains the blue note (b5) and the major 3rd. We got some hammer-ons, pull-offs and slides in there. No bend-ups in this one and the lick finishes with a slide into an A7 chord. Really nice.

Below you can find the tabs and video lesson to learn this fabulous blues lick.

Enjoy!

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