One of the things about blues that makes it easy to play is the fact that the 12 bar blues form is just that – a form that you can depend on.<\/p>\n
In fact, if you know the key, and you know the feel, you can often jump right in and play without much else to go on if you have some blues rhythms that you know will work<\/a>.<\/p>\n So since you should know the 3 chords in the 12 bar blues, no matter what key… it’s time to hip you to some of the most common blues feels.<\/p>\n And in this case we’re going to start with some active listening of the feels so you can connect some dots down the road…<\/p>\n The blues shuffle is the quintessential blues feel for most people (right up there with the slow blues.) The main difference between the shuffle and the slow blues is the tempo – but both divide the beat into 3 pieces, not 2 or 4 as is more common in other styles of music.<\/p>\n So as you listen to this clip, try to count the “1 and uh 2 and uh 3 and uh 4 and uh” even though it’ll go by pretty quickly.<\/p>\nFeel #1 – The Shuffle<\/h2>\n