Lesson 9 Bb Blues

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Joshua Boyd

almost 5 years ago

Curious in lesson 9 Bb Blues, if there is any rhyme or reason to the chord progression order?

I understand 1 4 5
Bb Eb F

Just didn't know if there was any reason Tomo goes over
Bb (Ascending)
Eb (Ascending)
Bb (Ascending)
Bb (Descending)
Eb (Ascending)
Eb (Descending)
Bb (Ascending)
Bb (Descending)
F (ascending)
Eb (Ascending)
Bb (Ascending)
F (Ascending)

Is this some sort of shuffle or random repeating to re-enforce learning the triads?

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George Mattingly Mod

almost 5 years ago

Your list matches the structure of a basic 12-bar blues:

I IV I I
IV IV I I
V IV I V

Tomo is playing 12-bar blues with triads rather than 7th chords. Whether the triads ascend or descend is only a matter of making an exercise sound more like music. The objectives are (1) to help you to learn triads by applying them and (2) to show that triads provide a foundation for melodic soloing in blues.

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George Mattingly Mod

almost 5 years ago

Here is Tomo's comment:

"Did you watch this video a few times? Maybe 5-6 times? This way you can control your triads over blues chord progressions. Feel free to add more combinations or apply this to different keys. If you need personal attention, please consider my Skype lessons. If interested, you can DM me through Instagram."

VICTOR MATVIENKO

almost 5 years ago

That's a key of B flat 1,4,5
so Bflat,Eflat,F

Joshua Boyd

almost 5 years ago

Thanks Victor,

Sorry if my question wasn't clear. I understand the key and the progression.

Tomo implies you can play over Bb blues

My question was more about the measures.

Any reason to the order or number of measures, like should I go understand common shuffle

Or was the measures just random

Elsky Omer

almost 5 years ago

I think it is still standard blues measure though not shuffle but simple quarter-quarter-half note, fitting the root position, 1st and 2nd inversion triads of each chord.

I think you're right, it is to re-enforce learning the triads.

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Pete

almost 5 years ago

This is standard 12 bar blues. There are a couple variants, but they are all basically the same and use I, IV and V chords. Wikipedia actually has a pretty nice write-up on it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve-bar_blues

As far as the ascending/descending, I think it's just to learn all of the inversions that can be done for Bb blues.

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