Blues, jazz, soul and funk
Blues on guitar: chords and rhythm.
Blues puts a seventh chord on every degree: E7, A7, B7, over twelve bars. The minor seventh creates a tension that never quite resolves. Play them as a shuffle, in a triplet feel, then improvise with the minor pentatonic.
I7 – IV7 – V7Level · Intermediate
The progression
Pick a key: the charts change right below. "Listen" plays the progression with its rhythm; a click on a chord plays it alone, the arrow opens its page.
In the collection
4Songs in this style, with their chords or the scale of their solos.
From the same world
The music born of the African American tradition: the blues' seventh, the rich chords of jazz and soul, the strumming hand of funk, and gypsy jazz's la pompe.