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Chapter 6: Blues Progressions, Song Forms, and Moves
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E
A
E
Figure 6-2:
The 12-bar
blues in E.
B7 A E
If you’re a little shaky on the eighth-note strum for Figure 6-2, try first playing
this blues with quarter-note downstrokes (covered in Chapter 5). Don’t
worry, you’re still in sync with the CD, but the guitar on the CD strums two
chords to your one. After you can play that comfortably, try playing with
eighth-note downstrokes in a shuffle feel. After that, try the alternate-picking
approach, which is discussed in Chapter 5.
The quick four
The quick four is a variation on the 12-bar blues that occurs in the second bar,
where you go to a IV chord — for example, A in the key of E — for one bar, and
go back to the I chord for two bars. The quick four, as shown in Figure 6-3,
provides an opportunity for variation and interest in an otherwise unbroken
stretch of four bars of the same chord.
Track 18, 0:37
E
(Quick IV)
A
E
Figure 6-3:
The quickfour
change
in bar two,
in E blues.
A
B7 A E
E
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