Credit: Getty Images/Ian Dickson/Redferns Jethro Tull ... energised me – you could step outside the comfort zone of twelve-bar blues or pop music and you could do something different.” ...

And unlike the comfortingly predictable 12-bar blues most people are familiar with ... Scott Legato / Getty Images Holmes gives Auerbach some pointers. Alyssa Gafkjen Despite playing guitar ...

Nearly a decade later, Bill Haley & His Comets employed the same melody over a 12-bar blues to create “Rock Around the Clock,” the first mainstream rock song.

“Hand to heart, my favorite players were always the ones that had such an identifiable style and wrote songs in that very 12-bar blues framework,” Knowles told Cleveland.com and The Plain ...

In blues ‘dominant’ 7 chords (A7 or D7 for example) are more common than basic major, minor and sus chords. The A7, D7 and E9 shapes shown here are all you need for a 12-bar blues improv in the key of ...

It's characterized by specific chord progressions, a blues scale, and call-and-response patterns, particularly the twelve-bar blues. The blues has roots in spirituals, work songs, field hollers ...