Blues piano tutorial, part one - structure of 12 bar blues

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Uploaded by on Aug 18, 2010

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The structure of 12 bar blues is one of the most important concepts in blues piano. This video covers how 12 bar works, which chords it's made up of and how to start to approach it on the piano keyboard.

Something that's really important here is that you have a good grasp of the I - IV - V chord pattern - sometimes referred to as tonic, subdominant and dominant chords. It's a really good idea to familiarise yourself with this structure on the piano keyboard in a wide variety of different keys (not just C)! If you do that, you'll find that 12 bar just falls right under your fingertips.

In the following tutorials I'm going to take a look at how you can use 12 bar blues structures in various different ways on the piano.

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  • en ESPAÑOL, por favor ):

  • great!

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