Spice up Your Twelve Bar Blues with this Chord Trick
The best way to keep 12 bar blues from becoming predictable is to have a few chord substitution tricks under your fingers. In this lesson, we’ll work on getting the Tritone Substitution into your blues. Additional Lesson Materials Coming Soon!
In this lesson, we put the ii-V-I progression to work in the context of a fingerpicked 12 bar blues in A. The key difference in this turnaround and the typical blues turnaround is the addition of the II chord (in this lesson B). But we've gotta make things bluesy, right?