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How to do Blues Chords Progressions
The standard method in music has variations. Blues has variations as well. Slight differences in sound are achieved by combining the chords involved in blues in a variety of ways. The blues chords commonly used in the progressions within the blues genre are well known. Some of the most common progressions used in blues chords are below.
Blues twelve bar
The best known of the blues chord progressions is the twelve bar blues. In the nineteeth and twentieth century blues and jazz it was predominant. The toinc, subdominant and dominant chords are the three chords used in this progression. Twelve measures is the length of the progression. The subdominant chord is in the fifth measure in most cases. The cadence moves to the tonic in the nineth measure.
Chord Progression of the Basie Blues
A variation of the 12 bar blues this uses a minor scale to change the sound from the conventional sound of the 12 bar. The 12 bar minor progress has a deeper more offset sound while the elements remain the same.
Blues chord progressions: 8 and 16 Bar
The 8 and 16 bar blues are the two other major variations of the 12 bar blues. The basic elements required for the 12 bar progression are used and made into shorter versions of themselves. The first, third, eighth, and twelfth measures of the basie blues progression are taken for the 8 bar progressions pattern of chords. A 12 bar pattern that has an extended chord pattern lasting for sixteen measures is the 16 bar blues. The chords in the nineth and tenth measures are repeated three times other than that it follows the structure of the 12 bar blues.
Time to practice is required for learning the various chord progressions. The other variations are easy to learn once the 12 bar blues are mastered. The first step to learning variations in blues chords is the 12 bar progression. Take time to practice and learn it first. Playing the blues will follow.
