Blues School: Major Blues 12-Bar Form & Harmony, Variation #8

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This harmonically sophisticated 12-bar Blues variation combines many of the ideas we have already studied–creating lots of harmonic interest and sense of forward motion…

… yet notice how the basic harmonic outline and three-phrase structure that defines the 12-bar blues form is still there!

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Does anybody want to hear Frank play a real-life example based on the chord changes above?


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