E Minor 12 bar blues
2008 February 14
Learning to play a Twelve Bar Blues is very common. What I’ve done is written out a simple 12 Bar blues but in a minor key instead of using the standard seventh chords. It has a much softer feel than the standard E7 A7 B7. What you will use is an E Minor 7th chord, and an A minor 7th chords instead of the E7 and A7.
This is very soulful sounding and works well if you play it slow
Click on the link to download the printable acrobat reader pdf
E minor Blues Free Notation and Tab 12 bar blues
To improvise over this use the E minor Blues scale that is also useable over a standard blues.
You’ll find it here http://the-guitarplayer.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/e_blues_scale_3_octave.pdf
