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Author Topic: Can someone post a JS song with 12 bar blues please?  (Read 1506 times)
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« on: December 01, 2008, 09:35:50 PM »

I know I am slow, but I just never know if I am doing 12 bar blues right.  I am not a musician by any stretch of the imagination.  I can sing the blues.  I just don't know if I am laying the chords down right in JS.

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« Reply #1 on: December 01, 2008, 11:24:38 PM »

12 bar blues is probably gonna require 3/4 or 6/8 timing, which isn't available in JS yet.

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« Reply #2 on: December 02, 2008, 06:30:12 AM »

I think he's right but lets hear what you have!
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« Reply #3 on: December 08, 2008, 01:24:16 AM »

I don't have anything.  I was wondering how to do it.  Thanks for letting me know it probably can't be done on JS.  At least I wasn't too far off base.   Smiley
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« Reply #4 on: December 19, 2008, 05:45:08 AM »

I'll try to keep it simple:

A basic 12-bar blues is:

I I I I
IV IV I I
V IV I V

Take the standard key as example (G Key)
G = I
C = IV
D = V

So a 12-bar blues in G would be:
G G G G
C C G G
D C G D

Dig it?

I suggest reading some theory bout all this, its really not that hard to fathom:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve-bar_blues

The chord layout in JS is always the same (in any Key): I IV V IIm IIIm VIm (no VII unfortunately)

Ive saved an example in the Public Shared songs called: 12 and 8 bar blues
http://www.jamstudio.com/Studio/FWSongShare.asp?SongNum=199186&SongId=199338
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« Reply #5 on: December 19, 2008, 07:31:15 AM »

well done TEACHER!------------------The Cracks ,you may wanta listen to this guys i think he is a Music Teacher!
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« Reply #6 on: August 31, 2009, 04:37:38 PM »

http://www.jamstudio.com/Studio/FWSongShare.asp?SongNum=418698&SongId=418849
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« Reply #7 on: September 01, 2009, 07:38:23 AM »

 ;Dbeatsworking, Where did he go? lol  We where just hav'in fun.





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« Reply #8 on: October 28, 2009, 11:52:26 AM »


This is what I had in mind.  I understand how to write it out and what chords to play, I just didn't know how to do it on JS.  Sorry if I didn't explain that.

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