The turnaround is the section of a piece of music that leads back to the beginning. In a 12-bar blues, you can think of either the last four bars or the last two bars as the turnaround. For now, we’re ...

To get you started we’re looking at some chords in the guitar-friendly key of A. You’ve probably heard of a I-IV-V (one-four-five) progression - it’s a common blues chord sequence and its name tells ...

The shuffle is a popular rhythmic feel used in various styles of music, especially blues. I play a lot of blues-based music ...

When the blues is played in a jazz context the chord progression is more sophisticated in the number and types of chords used. In addition to the basic I, IV, V chords, jazz blues incorporates major ...

AccuJazz Internet Radio continues its weekly roll-out of creatively programmed jazz channels today with the launch of “Nothin' But the Blues," a streaming channel playing hundreds of jazz versions of ...