Blues Progressions
Before working your way through this book it will be important to have a basic understanding of a Blues chord progression. Most Blues songs follow a common sequence of chords with each chord played for a certain amount of bars.
A Blues progression is generally constructed from the three basic chords in a key which are illustrated in the table that follows. These three chords are referred to as the I, IV and V chords. The Roman numerals relating to the 1st, 4th, and 5th notes of the major scale from which each chord takes its name.
Class Sessions
1- INTRODUCTION
2- The Rudiments of Music
3- Blues Fingerpicking Slide Guitar
4- Alternating Thumb Style
5- Fingerpicking the Blues
6- Chord Based Licks
7- More Scale Patterns
8- Bass Line Techniques
9- Blues Progressions
10- Constant Bass Line in the Key of E
11- Left Hand Techniques
12- Constant Bass Line
13- Tuning Your Instrument
14- Note Values
15- Twelve Bar Blues Progression
16- Playing Position
17- Time Signatures
18- Eight Bar Blues Progression
19- Chord Diagrams Used in This Book
20- Hand Technique
21- Scale Diagrams Used in This Book
22- Picking the Strings
23- Scales
24- Tablature
25- The Chromatic Scale
26- Tablature Symbols
27- The Major Scale
28- The Minor Scale
29- The Minor Pentatonic Scale
30- The Blues Scale
31- Keys and Key Signatures
32- Relative Keys