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...
Blues School: Major Blues 12-Bar Form & Harmony, Variation #8
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Blues School: Major Blues 12-Bar Form & Harmony, Variation #6
This commonly used 12-bar Blues variation inserts a secondary dominant A7 (V7/ii) in bar 8 to feed the Dm7 (ii7) in bar 9...
Blues School: Major Blues 12-Bar Form & Harmony, Variation #5
This commonly used 12 bar Blues variation substitutes a ii7-V7 progression for the V7 chord in bars 9 and 10...
Blues School: Major Blues 12-Bar Form & Harmony, Variation #4
This commonly used 12-bar Blues variation inserts the V chord in bar 12 in order to create harmonic tension that sets up the next chorus...
Blues School: Major Blues 12-Bar Form & Harmony, Variation #3
A commonly used variation substitutes a IV7 chord in bar 2...
Blues School: Major Blues 12-Bar Form & Harmony, Variation #2
This variation creates harmonic motion by inserting an F7 chord in bar 10...
Blues School: Major Blues 12-Bar Form & Harmony, First Lesson
Welcome to the first and most important lesson in Major Blues 12-Bar Form & Harmony... Within each 12-bar chorus, there are three 4-bar sub-phrases... Phrase #1 presents the main rhythmic/melodic theme and establishes a clear sense of tonic harmony (I)... Phrase #2 is typically a variation of or complement to the main theme played over a … Continue reading Blues School: Major Blues 12-Bar Form & Harmony, First Lesson