The Friendly 12bar Blues Guitar Forum

:welcome: The head of this blues R played whit the Dorean scale but uses some other common scales in blues 4 the improvisation/solo part; Dim, Wholetone and a minor pentatonic that inclusive all the tones whit tension from the Super Locrian. So its very much a typical 12 bar jazzbluesskeleton of cou...

I like ambience. You catch the feeling well and its much more meditative than my attempt to play ambience whit a guitar. :lefty: A synthmusican, Oortone, composed a ambient song a couple of year ago where I tried to catch the feeling on my guitar. I slaughtered the tune like rock :big_smile: but it ...

Dancetune, a Jump 6th Blues, a swing in 6/8, Lindy Hop.

Of course we keep playing. : )
Have a real good time whit your family now.

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This is a 12 bar progression which demonstrates all the
techniques described in my "Reharmonizations" articles
under the forum "Blues Guitar Playing."

I did add 4 short but clear descriptions for to simply reharmonize both the succession (the head/theme, melody) as well as the progression (chords/harmonies) in a bluessong. :dance: (I could have need a little help whit the html to get one or two diagram right. Pls !!!) U will do just fine and come ...

The "Backdoor Progression" is a turnaround that goes; iv7 to ♭VII7 to I . Sounds really bluesy. :big_smile: By a theoretical reharmonizationtechnique, Modal Mixture , thebVII7 R, since the music goes in a major key, borrowed from the paralell minorscale and therefor it´s allways a dom7 cho...

| CM7 Am7 | Dm7 G7 | (cadence/turnaround) | CM7 A7 | D7 G7 | (dominant for minor) | CM7 E♭7 | A♭7 D♭7 | ( tritone sub.) | CM7 E♭M7 | A♭M7 D♭M7 | (major for dom7) (Am7) " " " I (heard in rarely in use sometimes) :icon_whoknows: Play this turnaround ex for a blues in Amin or in C. :win...

The Scriabin/Prometheus scale Its can be used for reharmonize the succession , the head /melody instead of the chordprogression. Just transpose the melody to this scale. Prometheus Reveald .mp3 Used in blues as the "secret scale", when the monster (soloplayer) need som new sounding tunes ...

Dom7, "Bluessevenths" R important in both jazz and blues to get the sound.:banana: The Paralell-Dominants to the C maj chordscale; :cool: I ii iii IV V vi vii Cmaj7 Dmin7 Emin7 Fmaj7 G7 Amin7 Bmin7b5 G7 A7 B7 C7 D7 E7 F#7 V / I V / ii V / iii V / IV V / V V/ vi V / vii This will be all U n...

The Purpose; A short etude in 3 parts aiming for to let knowing the scale in thirds , for eartraing (,listen to the thirds U play and learn the difference between minor and major, ) and to develop speed and fingerdexterity. I call this etude "The Three Norns" (from the northern mytholgy)....

:welcome: Site News; Music is much like learning a language. And to teaching that language. If U R a teacher and have one pupil its said that they R 2 persons learning the language. :bb: So thats why I wrote 1 article and 1 lesson for about 5 years ago. :nuts: Both scripts turns to guitarplayers and...

My Personal Suggestions/Advices For Improvising (Shooting) Over A Bluesy Vamp. (The Inner Logic) https://youtu.be/9Hn8NvG_ELw :welcome: Im not a guitarhero but Im very into improvising & soloing whit my guitar........So I´ll try to print down for you ,this, my personal advices for soloing strat...

How to use and play a ii-V7-I progression properly. (The Jazzscale) https://youtu.be/SCDqIq8depA :welcome: In Jumpblues, Jazzblues, Bebop, Fusionblues a ii-V7-I progression are common, often in the turnaround. Its the basic cadence and its important to know how you use that harmonies and how to out...

:welcome: Hi there. I really can´t sing. ButI didn´t found any singer to this tune so I did sang anyway. Guess we have to live with that. :lol: It´s a lot offunnier tune with the songtrack anyway so. Much easier to listen to. This is a ordinary 12 bar boogie in G7, 4/¤, 120 bmp.The tune is all about...

I don´t know if this is a cool link but I have a Youtubechannel,
whit some blues among other musicfiles.
Here´s the link;

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuR8iU ... d253RxO-5A

You can also find me at Spotify or Itunes.
Just search 4 Johan Paxom.

My relatives gave me a new Mac and a new studio for me 50nth birthday. So tonight I am going to drink 2 glases of a fine smoky whisky and explore ma new studio. :chicken: I will also try to edit ma drums my self instead of use loops from now. Its exiting an I have a book whit lots of drumnotations f...

12 bar Dorean guitarblues in Dm, 4/4 and the tempo of 142 bmp. :welcome: Slightly an´neat reharmonized. An choose a the right time to listen cause it might call for a liitle bit of concentration but its hopefully not hard to listen at. I kept it very naked and simple. And Dorean scale has that wond...

Thnx 4 listening an understanding 4 what I tried do do here.

Thats Seymour Duncan´s called Hyperion an R developed by the soundtechnichians who created the cool mics of the 70ties and the 80ties, like Van Halens mics, Theres a knob so I can split them to single coils, sounds real good, a bit like stratocaster, and thats gives a lot of options. The neck is bur...