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    The document provides a 3-step guide to playing the 12 bar blues: Step 1 introduces the 12 bar melody with 4 beats per bar and instructs to learn the notes; Step 2 adds an additional note a third above the first and to learn this variation; Step 3 adds a third note a fifth above the first, explaining that these three notes played together are called chords. The guide concludes that the reader has now learned to play the 12 bar blues.

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    The document provides a 3-step guide to playing the 12 bar blues: Step 1 introduces the 12 bar melody with 4 beats per bar and instructs to learn the notes; Step 2 adds an additional note a third above the first and to learn this variation; Step 3 adds a third note a fifth above the first, explaining that these three notes played together are called chords. The guide concludes that the reader has now learned to play the 12 bar blues.

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    The document provides a 3-step guide to playing the 12 bar blues: Step 1 introduces the 12 bar melody with 4 beats per bar and instructs to learn the notes; Step 2 adds an additional note a third above the first and to learn this variation; Step 3 adds a third note a fifth above the first, explaining that these three notes played together are called chords. The guide concludes that the reader has now learned to play the 12 bar blues.

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    A step-to-step guide to playing the 12 bar-blues

    Step 1
    - Notice that this melody has 12 bar of music.
    - Each bar has 4 beats in it.
    - Work out the notes and then learn to play it.

    Step 2
    - Notice how this melody also has 12 bars but this time another note has been
    added a third above the first note.
    - Learn to play this melody adding the extra note.

    Continue
    Step 3
    - We now have now added a third note a fifth above the first note.
    - The three notes played together are called CHORDS. (a chord is 2 or more
    notes played together at the same time.)

    You have now learned to play the 12 bar blues! Well done.

    Check understanding:
    Ask yourself the following questions to check that you fully understand.

    1. How many bars are there in the 12-bar-blues?


    2. What is a chord?
    3. What is the chord pattern for the 12 bar blues?

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