When I think blues I think 12 bar blues, but there is also a format known as the 8 bar blues which sounds amazing. It is a little more old timey and has a little more of an Americana vibe to it, adding a II7 chord and a bVdim7 chord, as well as a vi, but it is a ton of fun to play, jam on and worth learning.

In this tutorial we will walk you through both how to play an 8 bar blues and then we will look at how to transpose it, with the second key being the key of G. With progressions like this that are made to jam, blues, jazz, really anything that is made for musical gatherings with other musicians it is good to know how to play it in several keys and to know how to transpose it so you can play it in any key if the singer or band wants to change it.

Let’s take 8 bar blues.
First off, how many of you jam this progression? I bet some of you in the group didn’t even know 8bar blues was a thing, I didn’t for a couple years.
I play it like this. I’d love to see how you do
|I7•••• |I7•••• |IV7•••• |bVdim7••••
|I7••vi7•• |II7••V7•• |I7••IV7•• |I7••V7••
So the key of C would be
|C7•••• |C7•••• |F7•••• |F#dim7••••
|C7••Am7•• |D7••G7•• |C7••F7•• |C7••G7••
How do you play it? I’d sincerely like to know as I’d like to develop mine.

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