Kick your blues jam sessions off with these essential open-position and moveable chord shapes. To avoid sounding the idle ...

Jim Oblon drops some blues science, demystifying the practice of alternating between parallel minor and major pentatonics ...

Try experimenting with moving the shapes up and down the neck to create new sounds. The general theme with these shapes is the dominant 7th sound, which is essentially a major chord plus a b7th. This ...

Sus chords nearly always sound good when played before a major or minor chord that uses the same root note, Bsus4 to B, or Asus4 to A, for example. In blues ‘dominant’ 7 chords (A7 or D7 for example) ...

Blues in simple time with four beats in the bar and mostly follows a 12 bar blues chord structure. 8 and 16 bar blues can also sometimes be found. Blues verses have a three line structure - AAB ...