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AAAA AAAA AAAA AAAA
DDDD DDDD AAAA AAAA
EEEE DDDD AAAA DDDD wow...just listen to most standard blues songs, and as long as you can get the key, you can 12-bar over them all night long (all night long, Smokestack lightning...Allnight long)
I run jams and open mikes a couple of times a week, and its always the lowest common denominator, just shout '12-bar in A, shuffle' and you are away!! Steamroller - James Taylor, Messin' With The Kid - Blues Brothers, Hey Bartender - Johnny Lee, The Thrill Is Gone - BB King.... Most non jazz (and some jazz) blues songs use this traditional chord structure (141541). Its the standard blues chord structure.
Heres a few of the top blues artists and songs using this format:
CD - (Muddy Waters & Friends) Fathers & Sons, (BB King) Live At The Regal, (Allman Brothers) Live At The Fillmore East
CLASSIC BLUES SONGS - Stormy Monday Blues, Sweet Home Chicago, Dust My Broom, Drifting Blues, It Hurts Me Too, Its My Own Fault, Everyday I Have The Blues, The Sky Is Crying
GUITAR - Mike Bloomfield, Roy Buchanan, Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Albert King, Jimmy Johnson, Duane Allman, BB King, Buddy Guy, T Bone Walker, Kim Simmonds (Savoy Brown), Johnny Winter, Peter Green (early Fleetwood Mac), Bonnie Raitt, Mick Taylor (Rolling Stones & John Mayall), Duke Robillard, Billy Gibbons (ZZ Top)
BLUES HARP - Paul Butterfield, Charlie Musselwhite, Little Walter (Jacobs) , James Cotton, Norton Buffalo, James Cotton, Magic Dick (J Geils Band), Al Wilson (Canned Heat), John Popper (Blues Traveler), Darrell Mansfield, Big Walter (Horton)
PIANO - Otis Spann
FEMALE VOCALS - Janis Joplin, Bonnie Raitt (early years), Koko Taylor, Big Mama Thornton, Billie Holliday (jazz), Bessie Smith, Big Maybelle
MALE VOCALS - Muddy Waters, Howlin Wolf, John Lee Hooker, Paul Butterfield, Jimmy Johnson, Albert King, Buddy Guy, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Chris Youlden (early Savoy Brown), BB King, Joe Williams, Charlie Musselwhite, Robert Cray, Jimmy Rushing, Charles Brown
MISC - (Bass) Willie Dixon / (Steel Guitar) Freddie Roulette Sounds like you have the formula, just start jammin'
( tweny plus years at playing, and I'm still studying the basics!)
... just learned the "turn around" while back, while jammin' with a bass player at a pawn shop! ...I give credit to Robert Johnson, for the blues set up. ..and before him was Woodrow Tarmoon, aka ..."The Cat".... One O' Them Things - J. Chapman/L. Smith - 1904
I Got The Blues - A. Maggio - 1908
Magnetic Rag - Scott Joplin - 1914
Original Jelly Roll Blues - Jelly Roll Morton - 1915
Broadway Blues - Walsh/Sherman - 1915
Jogo Blues/St. Louis Blues - W. C. Handy - 1916
Livery Stable Blues - N. LaRocca - 1917
Yelping Hound Blues - Anton Lada - 1919
Jazz Baby Blues (Tin Roof Blues) - Richard Jones - 1923
Snag It - Joe 'King' Oliver - 1926
Jumpin' With Symphony Sid - Lester Young - 1949
St. Louis Blues March - W. C. Handy/Gene Krupa - 1958 Try some of theses blues artists.Blues hangover,joe galea band,james solberg,headhunters,turning blue,redneck mothers,dave hole,michael schau,chris kane,giants,omar and the howlers,tinsley ellis and the terraplanes. |
