Holycow Adam! After 5 months of playing the harmonica I came across this video lesson and it's like i've been just toying all this time. This is the real stuff. Thanks!
I'm so grateful these are available, I always had a great album collection, and saw the greats, but I would only reach a certain plateau in my playing and die. Never get better. I never had the funds to take lessons, but the old greats probably couldn't either. That you again adam these are fantastic.
This has to be the best explanation of the 12 bar blues progression I have ever come across, and I have come across many over the years. Little wonder it has created light bulb moments for the viewers.
Great lesson. The good news is that the same 12 bar, 3 chord blues happens in many rock, country, bluegrass, soul and American pop tunes. If you add a II and VI chord you have jazz blues. I don't think there's a more important chord progression in American music. Thanks for the great video!
Thank you Adam for your gracious effots, it is much appreciated. It helps to have a passion in your work, and it is obvious that you do. This is what separates you from others, maybe JP Allen displays such passion. You have taught me a few things that have really helped me in learning the basic harmonica fundamentals.
Adam !.... Thank's mate, I thought i knew all this, But....."i do now" Thanks to your help on this vid (and others). . Guess what ? as I'm typing this comment the 12 BB boogie i've just listened to is going through my mind and i'm tapping the keys on my laptop keyboard to the beat and rhythm of it. Ha ha how's that. Thanks Adam.
In the day before jam tracks my older brother taught me the 12 bar blues in guitar so he could jam over it. I also learned how to keep time because he would get mad at me if my timing would speed up or slow down. It would have been easier with this lesson but it’s in my bloodstream now.
That's great to hear. I like these sorts of stories! When I began this series of lessons, I hoped to kick as many people as possible into a new level by simply clarifying some of this basic but crucial stuff that sometimes gets ignored.
You may be violating copyright, but you're selling that CD for them. Just bought a copy and a friend did the same. You should be getting advertising fees. It's a great album. Thanks for recommending it.
A house with 12 bars would be an impressive pub! Sorry... couldn't resist a feeble gag. This is very interesting stuff and is certainly helping my theory and understanding of the subject along. Now my playing just has to catch up! Cheers.
Recently I'm practicing the 12 bar but going 1,2,3,4,1,2,3,4 etc. after a few chordchanges it becomes difficult to keep track where I am in the progression, this is a great way to keep track. Got the CD, "Black Night" is one of my many favourites. Looking forward to see your vid with mr Satan. As always, thanks Adam. btw do you have a homepage?
Having to return to this series of lessons & practice (re 12 bar counting) after realizing that I stopped practicing before feeling the changes became instinctual. I think I practiced this active listening for about 2 months at least a year ago. Any thoughts on how much time a day for how many days one would have to actively count along with blues recordings until one could go to a jam and feel the changes instinctively? Perhaps I should move these sort of questions to the forum, haha.
it doesn't really has anything to do with this... but the line you sing when you go to the 5 chord has been stuck in my head for the past 2 months.. and frustratingly, i can't copy it cause i can't sing :P
Can you find a sort of sheet music for this? It seems to be one note in fourths and each bar is a measurement? (Currently learning music, this seems to be a scale)
Holycow Adam! After 5 months of playing the harmonica I came across this video lesson and it's like i've been just toying all this time. This is the real stuff. Thanks!
You sir, are a genius. Adam, this is the easiest explanation of 12 bar blues that I've ever seen. As a guitarist venturing to the harp, thanks.
I'm so grateful these are available, I always had a great album collection, and saw the greats, but I would only reach a certain plateau in my playing and die. Never get better. I never had the funds to take lessons, but the old greats probably couldn't either. That you again adam these are fantastic.
Thanks Adam! 👍Great explanation!
This has to be the best explanation of the 12 bar blues progression I have ever come across, and I have come across many over the years. Little wonder it has created light bulb moments for the viewers.
Great lesson. The good news is that the same 12 bar, 3 chord blues happens in many rock, country, bluegrass, soul and American pop tunes. If you add a II and VI chord you have jazz blues. I don't think there's a more important chord progression in American music. Thanks for the great video!
Simply amazing. A very down-to-earth explanation of the 12 bar blues progression. Thanks for sharing!
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Thank you Adam for your gracious effots, it is much appreciated. It helps to have a passion in your work, and it is obvious that you do. This is what separates you from others, maybe JP Allen displays such passion. You have taught me a few things that have really helped me in learning the basic harmonica fundamentals.
Hi Adam could you do another 12 bar Blues video ????
It would help A LOT!!! Thank you!!!😃😃😃😃
Adam !.... Thank's mate, I thought i knew all this, But....."i do now" Thanks to your help on this vid (and others).
. Guess what ? as I'm typing this comment the 12 BB boogie i've just listened to is going through my mind and i'm tapping the keys on my laptop keyboard to the beat and rhythm of it. Ha ha how's that.
Thanks Adam.
In the day before jam tracks my older brother taught me the 12 bar blues in guitar so he could jam over it. I also learned how to keep time because he would get mad at me if my timing would speed up or slow down. It would have been easier with this lesson but it’s in my bloodstream now.
In addition to inspiring me to play the harmonica, you've inadvertently inspired me to sneak a guitar into my office at work.
That's great to hear. I like these sorts of stories! When I began this series of lessons, I hoped to kick as many people as possible into a new level by simply clarifying some of this basic but crucial stuff that sometimes gets ignored.
You re a great teacher! Thanks, I'm even using your lessons to learn blues and play it on flute!
Been looking for this breakdown for weeks. Thanks!!!
wow!! freaking wow!! I never really saw it that way before: the music and pointing out the chord progression.
Best explanation ever! 👍🏼
Thanks I needed this one. I will be watching it over & over.
You may be violating copyright, but you're selling that CD for them. Just bought a copy and a friend did the same. You should be getting advertising fees. It's a great album. Thanks for recommending it.
A house with 12 bars would be an impressive pub!
Sorry... couldn't resist a feeble gag. This is very interesting stuff and is certainly helping my theory and understanding of the subject along. Now my playing just has to catch up! Cheers.
I can't thank you enough for your lessons God bless
Thanks, guys.
Adam your lessons are wonderful. Would you please explain what it is in parenthesis in 2nd bar? thanx
Thanks heaps!! That's made it all made sense
Thnx mate
THANKS FOR THE INFO.
Grat stuff!
Recently I'm practicing the 12 bar but going 1,2,3,4,1,2,3,4 etc. after a few chordchanges it becomes difficult to keep track where I am in the progression, this is a great way to keep track.
Got the CD, "Black Night" is one of my many favourites.
Looking forward to see your vid with mr Satan. As always, thanks Adam.
btw do you have a homepage?
Having to return to this series of lessons & practice (re 12 bar counting) after realizing that I stopped practicing before feeling the changes became instinctual. I think I practiced this active listening for about 2 months at least a year ago. Any thoughts on how much time a day for how many days one would have to actively count along with blues recordings until one could go to a jam and feel the changes instinctively? Perhaps I should move these sort of questions to the forum, haha.
it doesn't really has anything to do with this... but the line you sing when you go to the 5 chord has been stuck in my head for the past 2 months.. and frustratingly, i can't copy it cause i can't sing :P
Can you find a sort of sheet music for this? It seems to be one note in fourths and each bar is a measurement? (Currently learning music, this seems to be a scale)
I don't know anything about those other two blues forms you mention. The only other common blues is an 8-bar form.
what holes do you recommend for I IV and V chords especially for the 12th bar for a C harp because I'm getting stuck on turn around on the 12th bar
Battlepro77 check the funky harps 12 bar blues lessons, its as awesome as this video is
On a C harp the I is generally G, 4 is C and the 5 is D. You can literally use your fingers to figure the 145 for any key.
Actually, it is the subdominant chord... dominant would be G in the C blues.
It's in the most confusing thing I ever
Starting to really believe I am an idiot :)