12 Bar Blues Rhythm Guitar Lesson

12 Bar Blues Rhythm Guitar Lesson.
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Never again will we be stuck for a rhythm accompaniment part to play at jam night, with our ultimate blues rhythm guitar study, presented by Bobby Harrison.
“Eleven By Twelve” gives us eleven rhythm guitar ideas to play over a 12 bar shuffle groove. Our long backing track allows us to experiment with stabs, sliding 9ths, imitation horn lines, off-beat parts, organ-style riffs, the Texas Shuffle, Uptown and Downtown Chicago riffs and many more, giving us plenty of options for tonal variety.
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We conclude this lesson with a short summary of everything we’ve covered so far in this part of our course, followed by more tips on improvisation and solo construction, before being given a brief overview of some of the exciting content we can expect to study over the coming lessons.
For reference, here is the order in which the rhythm guitar parts were performed over the backing track. Feel free to play them in your preferred order, but be aware that in the cases of the Uptown and Downtown shuffles, the bass line on the backing track changes accordingly.
Detailed Tab for each approach can be found in the individual rhythm guitar studies at the beginning of Level 2.
Stabs
Sliding 9ths
Imitation Horn Lines
Jump blues-style offbeats
Organ-style riffs
Texas-style shuffle
Chicago-style “Downtown Shuffle”
Chicago.style “Uptown shuffle”
Texas Variation
Simple March
Power Shuffle
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Thank you very much for the kind words!

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I'm a French Canadian from Quebec, but I understand enough to get into the blues right now. Excellent! ////Je suis un canadien français du Québec, mais je parviens à comprendre suffisamment pour me mettre au blues dès maintenant. Excellent!

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This is such a great rhythm exercise. You get comfortable with these 11 shuffles, you’ll be able to play rhythm for just about any blues bands out there.

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Do you have a video with all these styles broken down as in chord shapes etc as I love all these and want to learn them.

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Brilliant tutorial, it gives me a much better understanding of rhythm playing, thanks.

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Much of everything, Thank's

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Really happy I found you. Great to know there are teachers who understand the importance of a comprehensive rhythm lesson like this. Great job and really nice playing!

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A man who knows his stuff, well done sir. Too many times it's all about lead, and not much about rythm. I've learnt so much from you

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Bobby what guitar is that and amp pedals you use? Do you have a favourite strat type guitar and amp and if so which ones and why? Loved this video and thanks!

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Would you be offering the break down of this listen, l like how you use the different styles in this rythm. Please say yes...

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The website features full tab and everything is broken down note for note.

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do you have this complete lesson ?

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That Texas-style shuffle is amazing but I just can’t figure it out.

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Why are the logos on the headstock backwards? Do you actually play lefthanded?

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[@absolutebluesguitarlessons2722]

The videos on this channel serve as previews for the full course on the Absolute Blues Guitar website, which includes hours of video tutorials, full tab na backing tracks.