How to Play the 12 Bar Blues by Jody Worrell is a free online video guitar lesson teaching one of the basic fundamentals of blues. You'll learn how to play a 12 Bar Blues in the key of E. We'll first cover the chords that make up this progression (E7, A7, B7). Next you'll learn the order and length to play each of the chords. After you've got the rhyhm down you can spice things up by adding a turnaround lick over the last two measures of the progression.
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Here are the chords we're going to use
Here is the tab for a 12 Bar Blues Progression in E
Blues 101 - Rhythm by Jody Worrell is a downloadable Quicktime video lesson that will teach you the basic concepts of playing rhythm for blues guitar. Jody will teach you nine different blues chords and two different strum patterns with a bluesy feel. We'll play these new chords and patterns with a jam track to help you practice your timing. Included in the downoad is a .pdf with chords charts. $4.99
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