Variations on the Twelve-Bar Blues: 1930's Blues

If you like this lesson, subscribe here:    / walkthatbass   And if you want to learn Jazz Piano, please do check out my website: https://www.thejazzpianosite.com/ In this series of videos I cover a number of variations on the twelve bar blues. Over the years, various musicians have modified the 12 bar blues in order to make it a little more interesting and unique. So I plan to cover a whole bunch of different variations or modifications or changes that are often used over the 12 bar blues. Some are quite simple and only involve one or two chord changes, but others are more complex and jazzy In this lesson I cover the 1930's Style Blues. Essentially the only different between this one and the Quick Change Blues is that you V and IV in bars 9 and 10 become a II and V. Standard 12 bar blues: I | I | I | I | IV | IV | I | I | V | IV | I | I | In the key of C: Standard 12 bar blues: C7 | C7 | C7 | C7 | F7 | F7 | C7 | C7 | G7 | F7 | C7 | C7 | 1930's 12 bar blues: I | IV | I | I | IV | IV | I | I | II | V | I | V | In the key of C: 1930's 12 bar blues: C7 | F7 | C7 | C7 | F7 | F7 | C7 | C7 | D7 | G7 | C7 | G7 |