We’ve just recently finished up our Slide Guitar Unit and everyone has written and performed their own version of the “12 Bar Blues”! The “12 Bar Blues” is a traditional form for blues music consisting of mostly 3 different chords (I, IV, V) and going on for 12 measures before it repeats back to the beginning.<\/p>\n
It’s used a lot in classic blues songs and it’s often one of the first things musicians will play together since players can trade off singing\/soloing every 12 bars!<\/p>\n
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We just started a drum unit last week where we watched a variety of styles of drumming and started trying it ourselves!<\/p>\n
We’ve learned several “rudiments” and warm-ups including Eighths, Paradiddles, single-stroke rolls and flam taps. And most recently we’ve begun to explore basic drum beats for the drum set with the 2-4 drum beat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We’ve just recently finished up our Slide Guitar Unit and everyone has written and performed their own version of the “12 Bar Blues”! The “12 Bar Blues” is a traditional form for blues music consisting of mostly 3 different chords (I, IV, V) and going on for 12 measures before it repeats back to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"yoast_head":"\n