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Essentially, the blues is a specific progression that uses the C7, F7, and G7 chords. (For the sake of brevity, I'll only look at playing blues in the key of C). The blues chord progression lasts 12 bars (thus the phrase “12-bar blues”) that move in a familiar pattern using those three chords.
- What are the 3 chords used in the blues?
- What are the most common chord progressions in blues?
- What are the blues chord progressions?
What are the 3 chords used in the blues?
A common type of three-chord song is the simple twelve-bar blues used in blues and rock and roll. Typically, the three chords used are the chords on the tonic, subdominant, and dominant (scale degrees I, IV and V): in the key of C, these would be the C, F and G chords.
What are the most common chord progressions in blues?
Blues Progression (I, IV, V) The I, IV, V chord progression is one of the simplest and most common chord progressions across all musical genres. When it comes to the guitar, it's known as the “blues progression” because blues music makes heavy use of it.
What are the blues chord progressions?
The primary harmonic structure of the blues is the I-IV-V progression, which derived from church music of the South. Unlike most tonal music, which uses dominant 7th chords (1–3–5–b7) as functional harmony, the blues uses them to add color, most commonly in a 12-bar form (FIGURE 1).
