From the course: Beginning Blues Keyboard
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Minor 12-bar blues and the "Green Onions" bass line
From the course: Beginning Blues Keyboard
Minor 12-bar blues and the "Green Onions" bass line
- Our 12-bar blues could also be in a minor key. We could, for instance, have the same progression of one, four, and five chords, but all of them would be minor. In the key of C, for example, we have C minor, (plays a chord) F minor, (plays a chord) and G minor (plays a chord). Here's a bass line for a famous minor blues called Green Onions. (dark blues music) Okay, it's using the root, the flat three, and the four. I'm going to play minor treads in my right hand in the same inversions as we did in the last example over this Green Onions bass line. (blues music)
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