Weekly Blues Rhythms – The Blues Club

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WBR	LEVEL	STYLE	KEY	TEMPO	BPM	DESCRIPTION
4	easy	Blues Funk, 12-Bar Blues	Bm	4/4	85	12-Bar minor blues progression in the key is B minor inspired by B.B. King's The Thrill Is Gone
5	easy	Slow Blues	A	12/8	50	8-Bar Blues Progression
6	easy	Shuffle Blues, 12-Bar Blues	A	4/4 Shuffle	126	12-Bar Blues Shuffle with sliding chords and double stops
7	easy	Blues Funk, 12-Bar Blues	G	4/4	98	Funk blues rhythm with dominant 7th chord shapes on the first set of strings (strings 1, 2, 3, and 4).
9	medium	Blues Jazz, 12-Bar Blues	G	4/4 Swing	126	12-Bar Jazz Blues with sweet chord extensions & variations
10	easy	Blues Funk	E	4/4	120	8-Bar Blues inspired by Mary Had A Little Lamb
12	medium	12-Bar Blues	E	2/2	126	12-Bar Blues inspired by Got My Mojo Workin'
14	medium	Blues Funk, 12-Bar Blues	A	4/4	90	12-Bar Funk Blues rhythm
18	medium	Blues Jazz, 12-Bar Blues	C	12/8	60	Jazz Blues progression in the key of C with lots of chord substitutions
19	easy	Blues Funk	C#	4/4	94	Born Under A Bad Sign by Albert King
21	easy	Slow Blues, 12-Bar Blues, Blues Funk	Cm	4/4	84	12-Bar Minor Blues progression inspired by Gary Moore's Midnight Blues
23	easy	Blues Funk, 12-Bar Blues	A	4/4	94	Dominant 7th Chord Inversions on the 1st set of strings
28	easy	Shuffle Blues, 12-Bar Blues	C	4/4 Shuffle	100	I'm Tore Down by Eric Clapton
29	medium	Shuffle Blues	A	4/4 Shuffle	190	You Don't Love Me by The Allman Brothers Band
35	medium	Blues Jazz, 12-Bar Blues	Bb	4/4 Shuffle	104	Jazz Blues 12-Bar progression
36	easy	Shuffle Blues, 12-Bar Blues	A	4/4 Shuffle	108	Shuffle blues rhythm that I played using dominant 7th/9th chords shapes and double stops
37	easy	Shuffle Blues, 12-Bar Blues	E	4/4 Shuffle	62	Standard 12-Bar Blues inspired by Etta James' The Sky Is Crying
38	easy	Slow Blues	C	12/8	54	Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out by Eric Clapton
39	easy	Rock	Am	4/4	158	Garage Rock minor Blues - Halloween release
40	medium	12-Bar Blues	E	2/2	110	Got My Mojo Working rhythm variations
41	medium	Blues Funk	Bm	4/4	104	Hard To Handle by The Black Crowes
42	medium	Blues Rock	E	4/4	148	Rock Blues rhythm inspired by Rory Galaggher's Messin' With The Kid
43	easy	12-Bar Blues	E	4/4	114	12-Bar Blues inspired by John Mayall's Mess Around
44	medium	12-Bar Blues, Shuffle Blues	A	4/4 Shuffle	120	Turnaround 3/5: Blues Turnaround made with a tasty chords sequence
45	medium	Shuffle Blues, 12-Bar Blues	E	4/4 Shuffle	120	Rhythm part of the song Pride and Joy by Stevie Ray Vaughan
46	easy	Rock	E	4/4	108	Cocaine by Eric Clapton
47	easy	Blues Jazz, 12-Bar Blues	G	4/4 Shuffle	148	12-Bar swing-shuffle with dominant 13th and dominant 9th chords.
48	medium	Blues Funk	E	4/4	80	Funk rock-blues rhythm pattern centered around the Hendrix-chord (E7#9)
49	easy	Shuffle Blues, 12-Bar Blues	G	4/4 Shuffle	122	Blues rhythm centered around Pentatonic minor double-stops with an added major 3rd
50	easy	Shuffle Blues, 12-Bar Blues	G	4/4 Shuffle	120	WBR 15 Repost: 12-Bar Shuffle Blues inspired by Stevie Ray Vaughan's So Excited
51	easy	Rock	D	4/4	112	Sunshine of Your Love by Cream
52	easy	Blues Funk, 12-Bar Blues	C	4/4	90	12-Bar Blues inspired by Freddie King's Big Legged Woman
53	medium	Blues Funk, 12-Bar Blues	Am	4/4	94	12-Bar Funk minor Blues. Main riff + Funk rhythm pattern
54	medium	Blues Funk, Blues Rock, 12-Bar Blues	E	4/4	134	Come On by Stevie Ray Vaughan
55	medium	Shuffle Blues, 12-Bar Blues, Blues Rock	G	4/4 Shuffle	140	WBR 11 Repost: Tush by ZZ Top
56	medium	12-Bar Blues, Rock and roll	A	4/4	170	WBR 30 Repost: Rock And Roll by Led Zeppelin
57	easy	Blues Funk	Fm	4/4	118	24-Bar Minor Blues progression played in fingerpicking
58	medium	Slow Blues	C	6/8	50	Sweet Slow Blues progression, inspired by Joe Bonamassa's Asking Around For You
59	easy	Shuffle Blues, 12-Bar Blues	G	4/4 Shuffle	112	CHORD SERIES: Dominant 7th #1
60	medium	Blues Funk, Blues Rock	E	4/4	80	Another funk rock-blues rhythm pattern centered around the Hendrix-chord (E7#9)
61	medium	Rock	Em	4/4	164	Rhythm for the piece posted on Halloween. It's a minor blues with a garage-rock flavor.
62	easy	Slow Blues, 12-Bar Blues	A	12/8	56	CHORD SERIES: Dominant 7th #2
63	medium	Slow Blues	E	4/4 Shuffle	64	Fingerpicking 12-Bar Blues inspired by Gary Clark Jr.'s In The Evening
64	easy	Shuffle Blues, 12-Bar Blues	G	4/4 Shuffle	108	Pattern with double-stops from the Mixolydian mode related to each chord of a 12-Bar Blues
65	easy	Slow Blues	A	12/8	46	Jumping At Shadows by Gary Moore
66	easy	Slow Blues, 12-Bar Blues	Cm	12/8	50	CHORD SERIES: Minor 7th #1
67	medium	Blues Jazz	C	4/4 Swing	56	Jazz Blues Turn-Arounds
68	easy	Slow Blues, 12-Bar Blues	Am	12/8	54	WBR 34 Repost: Minor blues rhythm with sliding double-stops
69	easy	Blues Funk, 12-Bar Blues	Am	4/4	90	CHORD SERIES: Minor 7th #2
70	easy	Blues Rock, Rock	E	4/4	65	Rock blues rhythm riff that uses notes from the open position of the Pentatonic minor
71	medium	Shuffle Blues, Blues Rock	A	4/4	140	Trouble No More by the Allman Brothers Band
72	easy	12-Bar Blues	A	12/8	117	WBR 17 Repost: Hoochie Coochie Man
73	difficult	Blues Funk	E	4/4	94	Funk Blues rhythm
74	easy	Blues Funk, 12-Bar Blues	Am	4/4	84	CHORD SERIES: Minor 9th
75	easy	Shuffle Blues, 12-Bar Blues	A	4/4 Shuffle	88	Rhythm pattern for Damn Right, I've Got the Blues by Buddy Guy
76	medium	Blues Funk, blues Rock	Cm	4/4	118	WBR 22 Repost: Rock Blues rhythm in the style of Kenny Wayne Shepherd
77	medium	Shuffle Blues, 12-Bar Blues	E	4/4 Shuffle	108	WBR 2 Repost: One of the most popular ways to play a shuffle with some licks within the chord changes
78	medium	Slow Blues, 12-Bar Blues	Bbm	12/8	50	Blues rhythm inspired by Cold Cold Feeling
79	medium	Shuffle Blues	Gm	4/4 Shuffle	104	Straight shuffle played in fingerpicking. The licks are centered around the Blues scale with an added 6th
80	medium	Shuffle Blues, 12-Bar Blues	E	4/4 Shuffle	98	Super-popular rhythm for a 12-Bar Blues in E with an intro / turnaround lick
81	easy	Slow Blues, 12-Bar Blues	A	12/8	56	3 different chord combinations for the turnaround section and blues ending at the end
82	easy	Blues Funk, 12-Bar Blues	A	4/4	90	CHORD SERIES: Dominant 9th
83	easy	Shuffle Blues, 12-Bar Blues	A	4/4 Shuffle	124	Two different shuffle blues rhythm patterns using two sets of chords
84	medium	Blues Country	A	4/4 Shuffle	210	Fast 24-Bar boogie played in 1st position
85	medium	Slow Blues	E	12/8	56	What Happened by BB King
86	easy	Slow Blues, Blues Rock	Bm	12/8	60	Backing rhythm for the DBL 379, inspired by I Put A Spell On You (Joe Cocker version)
87	easy	Shuffle Blues, 12-Bar Blues	C	4/4 Shuffle	160	CHORD SERIES: Dominant 13th
88	medium	Blues Jazz	G	4/4 Swing	123	The chords progression for I'll Be Home For Christmas by BB King
89	medium	Blues Country	A	4/4 Shuffle	152	16-Bar Country Blues progression
90	easy	Shuffle Blues, 12-Bar Blues	A	4/4 Shuffle	100	The most common way to play a shuffle rhythm, example 1
91	easy	Shuffle Blues, 12-Bar Blues	C	4/4 Shuffle	100	The most common way to play a shuffle rhythm, example 2
92	easy	Blues Rock, Shuffle Blues	A	4/4 Shuffle	100	The rhythm in Change It by Stevie Ray Vaughan
93	medium	Slow Blues	A	12/8	60	Sweet 8-BarBlues rhythm
94	medium	Slow Blues, Blues Rock	Am	6/8	54	Still Got The Blues
95	easy	Slow Blues, 12-Bar Blues	Am	4/4	70	Rhythm part for the DBL 419 - 12-Bar Blues in the key of A minor in 4/4 at 70 Bpm
96	medium	Blues Funk, 12-Bar Blues	Am	4/4	108	Funk 12-Bar Blues rhythm
97	medium	Blues Jazz, 12-Bar Blues	Gm	4/4 Swing	130	12-Bar Jazz Minor Blues with some chord variations
98	medium	Slow Blues, 12-Bar Blues	G	12/8	58	Stormy Monday blues progression
99	medium	Slow Blues	A	6/8	62	Rhythm inspired by Please Come Home For Christmas
100	difficult	Blues Rock	E	4/4	108	Funk Blues rhythm centered around the E7#9 chord
101	medium	Shuffle Blues, 12-Bar Blues, Blues Rock	G	4/4 Shuffle	140	Tush by ZZ TOP
102	easy	Shuffle Blues, 12-Bar Blues	A	4/4 Swing	120	12-Bar Swing Blues progression
103	medium	Blues Funk	Bm	4/4	60	Layering a Groove
104	medium	Blues Funk	Gm	4/4	96	Tasty funk. The first guitar plays the main riff (Blues scale), while the second strat plays a funk rhythm
105	medium	Slow Blues	C	6/8	57	The rhythm guitar for my BB King style solo (DBL 470, 473, 477, 480)
106	medium	Rock and roll	A	4/4	134	8-bar Rock and Roll rhythm
107	medium	Blues Funk	E	4/4	120	Elevate your funk guitar skills with this 16th-note and 16th-note triplets rhythm pattern
108	medium	Slow Blues	Eb	12/8	62	The bridge section of "To Someone That I Love" by BB King
109	medium	Blues Funk	E	4/4	84	Funk Blues Groove. I've mixed in some tasty licks with rhythmic chords
110	medium	12-Bar Blues, Shuffle Blues	E	4/4 Shuffle	62	Shuffle blues rhythm
111	medium	Blues Rock	Am	4/4	72	Learn the rhythm section of my latest Southern Blues track
112	medium	Blues Jazz	A	6/8	50	Sweet jazz blues ballad
113	medium	swing blues	C	4/4 Swing	106	Swing blues inspired by Key To My Kingdom (BB King)
114	easy	12-Bar Blues, Blues Funk	A	4/4	103	Rhythm inspired by Cryin' Won't Help You Now (BB King)
115	medium	Blues Rock	E	4/4	74	E7#9-based Rock Blues rhythm (Hendrix style)
116	medium	Blues Rock	E	4/4	80	Low End Voodoo: Powerful rhythm featuring the Hendrix chord, funky pulse, and a deep low-end groove

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