Chords for 12 barJazz Blues - Easy Ukulele Jazz Style Tutorial

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_ [G] _ _ [C] _ _ _ [A] Hey, what's up everybody?
This is Tyler from 10 Thumbs Pro coming at you with another lesson today.
We're focusing on [B] technique.
We are going to do a 12-bar blues, but this time I'm not going to teach you a key, I'm
not going to teach you a solo.
I'm going to teach you how to make a 12-bar [A] blues more jazzy.
So we're going to call it a 12-bar jazz blues or a jazz 12-bar blues, whatever you prefer
or you choose.
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But if you came just because you want to jazz up your [Dm] 12-bar blues like Mr.
Robert Ford,
_ [B] that's cool.
I dig it and I respect it.
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it down right now.
_ All right, [C] so let's go to the chords we're going to need for our little jazz blues.
We need a C7 and _ _ _ _ [B] F7, which I'll play [F] like this.
_ _ But you [B] can see if you take your pinky off, you still have an [Dm] F7.
_ [B] I think it sounds better with that pinky on there [F] though.
_ _ [B] We're also going to need an A7, [A] _ _ _ _ [Dm] a D minor or a D [F] minor 7.
If you can get that pinky down. _
[Dm] If you can't, D minor will work.
7 [D] just sounds a little more jazzy. _
[G] And a G7.
Okay, _ so the [C] very first, if you're playing a blues in [B] C, you're probably just playing
a classic blues, your first four bars are going to be [C] all C7. _ _ _ _
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_ I'm just doing a down, down, up, up, down, up, down, down, up, up, down, up.
I'm throwing a mute in there, like down, down, up, up, down, up, but you don't have to.
Okay?
So that's the rhythm.
Down, down, up, up, down.
So what we're going to do, the first thing we're going to do to jazz it up is we're going
to add what's called a quick turnaround.
And we're going to change [F] bar 2 to F7.
[C] So it looks like this.
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[C] _ _ _ _ _ _ Okay, so 1, _ [F] 2, _ _ [C]
3, _ _ 4. _ _ _
Okay, and now [G] 5, 6, 7, 8 [B] in a normal blues would be [F] _ F5, 6, _ [C] _
7, _ 8.
But what we're going to do is we're going to do 5 and 6 the same, and then 7 is going
to be C7, but then bar 8 we're going to play an [A] A7, which is really [C] interesting because
this is like, _ [Em] _ [Cm] normally this would maybe be an A [C#] minor, but we're taking that 6 and making
it a 6, [B] 7, we're making it an A7, which is interesting.
So 5, 6, 7, 8 look like [F] this. _ _ _
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[A] _ _ _ Okay?
[C] _ 9 is going to be a minor [F] chord, minor 7.
9, _ _
[G] 10, _ and then [D#] 11 and 12 is our [B] turnaround.
And this is going to be actually half beats.
So we're going to do a down, up, mute on [C#] C7, down, up, mute on A7, [F] down, up, mute on [G] D7,
down, up, mute on G7.
And that turnaround is where it's going to sound really jazzy.
So let's [D] look at the last [Dm] four bars.
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_ [A] _ _ [F] _ _ [G] _ And then it [C] starts over. Okay?
_ Okay, so I'm going to put all of those on the screen, [D] and you can see this [G] jazz bar
turnaround.
I'm also going to put the Roman numerals above them, so you can choose the [C] key, and you can
play this in any key if you know how to transpose, okay?
Put [G] some links below with information on transposition, Roman numerals, and some things like [C] that.
Okay, so here we go.
Okay, so here we go. _ _
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[C] _ _ _ _ [F] _ And it [C] starts over.
_ And you can use _ the [B] C minor pentatonic [D#] scale as a vehicle to improvise over this.
[Cm] _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ [B] But you can get more jazzy.
Leave enough comments, and I will make this a jam track, and I will show you how to add
some [G] jazz tones into your improvisation for your blues as well, so you can balance that
bluesy-jazzy feel a la Robert Ford.
Okay, so that was jazz blues 12-bar in the key of C.
I hope you dug it.
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All right, so now that you've got that 12-bar blues, I get 10 comments below that you want
a jam track.
I will make a jam track, and I will show you how to solo over this 12-bar jazz blues as
well to make your solo [B] sound a little more jazzy too.
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