To get you started we’re looking at some chords in the guitar-friendly key of A. You’ve probably heard of a I-IV-V (one-four-five) progression - it’s a common blues chord sequence and its ...

Guitar lessons: The most common chord progression is known as a ‘12-bar blues’, which, predictably is 12 bars long (eight-, 16- and 24-bar versions are common, too). What the name doesn’t tell you is ...

The most popular chord progression is the 12-bar blues, but 8- and 16-bar versions are well used too. Typically, the chords follow a I-IV-V (one-four-five) sequence, which means they’re built on the ...

Notice how the lick can be repeated over the I and IV chords of a I-IV-V blues chord progression; that’s G-C-D in the key of G. Example 2. Blues-rock: Mixolydian/minor pentatonic mix ...

A lot of the elements that make pop music successful relate to it being catchy and familiar. As a songwriter, there are many ways to engender this feeling in listeners, to do with song structure, ...

From outside Blind Willie’s club, you can hear a scorching guitar solo over a blues chord progression one evening in July. The source: a 76 year old grandmother.

Instead of standard blues chord progressions, Otis Taylor alternated between banjo and electric guitar to create hypnotic grooves — helped by a band that included a steel guitarist and Chicagoan ...