What are minor blues?

The Minor Blues Form On a superficial level, not very much. You can simply switch all of the chords to their minor counterparts and play the 12 bar progression as normal. In the key of C minor, this would be as follows: You may have noticed that the chords here are minor 7 chords, not straight minor chords.

What is a minor blues progression?

The minor blues progression follows the standard 12 bar form but with minor 7th or minor 6th chords instead of the dominant 7th chords that you would associate with the traditional 12 bar blues. We start by playing through with simple triad voicings, and then we extend the chords to include the 7th.

Which notes to bend in blues?

Typically, in a blues solo, when using a pentatonic minor(or blues) scale, the most common notes to bend are the b3, 4 and b7 of the tonic or key scale.

What is the A minor blues scale?

What is the minor blues scale? The minor blues scale is built by adding a b5 interval to the minor pentatonic scale, forming the pattern 1-b3-4-b5-5-b7. This scale is used to solo over just about any chord or key including major keys, minor keys, major chords, minor chords, blues progressions, and more.

What is the formula for a minor blues scale?

As its name implies the minor pentatonic scale is made up of five notes : tonic, minor third, perfect fourth, perfect fifth and minor seventh. The minor pentatonic blues scale formula is : tonic (1), minor third (b3), fourth (4), flat fifth (b5), fifth (5) and minor seventh (b7).

What are the minor blues chords?

I’ll start by going over the form that is the most similar to the major blues progression. This form of the minor blues progression uses 4 chords: the i chord, the iv chord, the v chord, and the V chord. The i, iv, and v chords will all be minor 7th chords, and are therefore indicated by lower case roman numerals.