12 Bar blues

I enjoy reading the ECL mails, but don’t chime in very often. I thought I’d share one of my games: I get “Crazy 8” card games to work on intervals. The students have tokens at each end of the keyboard. When they draw a card…

• Last updated 4 years ago
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I recently put together this Spotify playlist of songs that many people may be surprised to find out use the 12-bar blues structure (or fairly minor variations of it). I left out lots of the early rock era (1950s-1960s) songs that use 12-bar structure, since…

• Last updated 4 years ago
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Why do we teach the 12-bar blues with CFCC as the first 4 instead of the standard CCCC that is everywhere else? Personally I like the F added in as it makes it more interesting. But does SM have a reason? I’m guessing congruency, so…

• Last updated 5 years ago
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Please help with Squidgies Boogie (Foundation 4). In the training videos, Neil Moore refers to the altered 12 bar blues in the teacher notes, but I don’t see the 12 bars listed in my teacher notes page. He says the second measure stays as I.…

• Last updated 7 years ago
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I want to find a CD with a 12 Bar Blues on it to play for young kids. My point is to illustrate that this pattern is used all the time by recording musicians – and they are now “members of the club” because they…

• Last updated 10 years ago
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I just thought I’d share something exciting that happened tonight! I lead the praise band at my church and just playing around I played Alma Mater blues while the band was getting organized and we were going through a sound check. After practice, the band…

• Last updated 7 years ago
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