Chords for How to Spice Up Your Blues Progressions

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_ _ _ [C#m] Hi, [F#] Travis here from wobbler pedals and the chasing tone [D] [B] podcast
I want to take a little time [N] to talk to you about how to spice up your blues rhythms or your blues progressions even
specifically adding what's called a _
251 or a 25
_ Turnaround now a lot of people have heard of this and it's you know
It's associated with jazz and anytime people hear jazz it just automatically confuses them
But I'm going to show you how to use it in and a dumbed down
[B] Travis way, which is you know kind of a blues way.
So first I'll just go through a standard blues progression
Using seventh and ninth chords and I can well if you don't know those chords, we'll flash them up for you
So here's the first chords of seventh chord.
I'm gonna do this in G.
So the progression just be a 1 4 & 5 so
_ So [C] _ [G] _
_ _ _ [A#m] _ [B] _ [G] _ _ [Gm] _
_ _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ [D] _ _ _ [C] _ _
_ [Gm] _ _ [C#] _ [Bm] _ [C] _ [G] _ _
_ _ [F#] _ [C#] _ you can hear on the turnaround.
I went from D to C or the 5 to the 4
So now I want to do a 2 to a 5 so basically I'm substituting a 5
for a 2 and a 4 for a 5 so
The thing to remember is most of the time there's no such thing as always
But most of the time that 2 is going to be a minor or a minor 7th chord
so now I'll play the same progression and I'll substitute the 2 which in this case would be a minor _ _ _ _ and
So I'll play the same same progression and instead of 5 4 I'll do a 2 5
[Gm] _ _ So [C] _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ [G] _
[Gm] _ _ _ [F#m] _ [Gm] _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ [C] _ [Dm] _ [C] _ [Am] _ _ [D] _
_ [Gm] _ _ [A#m] _ [G] _ [C] _ [G] _ _
_ [F#] _ _ _ [N] you can feel or you can hear that it kind of has a jazz feel to it and
The reason that's cool is it could change the way you play lead guitar over as well
So now what I'll do is I'll play a different version of these chords and I'll put these up on the screen as well
The version of the a minor I'm gonna play is basically with two fingers and it's a lazy version to play really
But I'm [C] playing the bottom four
I'm sorry the top four strings [N] with my ring finger and then I'm muting the a string as
And with my middle finger, but at the same [Am] time I'm
Threading the fifth fret on the E string to get this _
_ _ So that's a a minor _ _ _
_ _ _ [C] So then it's very easily you can drop
_ Your fingers down a string and then drop when you [G] drop your fingers down a string you're gonna add your first finger to the fourth fret
_ Of the D string and [D] that'll give you a d9 [Am] chord
So _ you can hear they sound very similar
But _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ you're changing the root note which gives it that movement.
So we didn't hear it together.
[Am] It's
So _ _ _ [G] _ _
[C] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ [F#] _
_ [Am] now to take it one step further.
It's another little trick, but basically you're just gonna add
_ [C#m] The seventh fret is quite a stretch for your pinky, but you know it it [Am] gets easier
I promise [F] and then on the seventh [Em] fret of the B and E strings
You're gonna fret that with your pinky for both chords.
And that's what gives you a lot of
_ I don't know jazz tones jazz sounds and it'll sound a
little bit more sophisticated [F#] so _
_ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
_ So that's your a minor and [F#] now your d9 with that [E] becomes your d13, [Bm] but don't worry about that.
It's just a D _
_ _ _ _ _ _ So I'm gonna play all that to the regular progression and then I'm gonna do those chords
[G] So _ _ _ [C] _ [G] _ _
_ _ _ [C] _ [B] _ _ [Gm] _ _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ [C] _ [G] _
[C] _ [Bm] _ _ _ _ [G] _ [F] _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ you _ [Bm] _ [Am] can hear it really spices things up and then you can learn how to play guitar or play lead
Over those chords and I'll go over that in another video
But just to give you an example of why you would want to play those chords if you're playing
when you go over to your two you can _ [E] play out of that _ _ [A] _ [D] and then to your five
_ [Am] _ [G] _ [F] _ [C]
[G] So _ when you do that you can play things like this [A#] so [C] _ [G] _ _ _ [A#] _ [C] _ [G] _
[E] _ _ [D] _ [Gm] _ _ _ [G] _ _
[C#] _ [C] _ [Am] _ _ [A] _ [Dm] _ [Gm] _ _
[G] _ [C] _ _ [F] _ [G] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ it gives you
More tonal options.
It makes it a little bit more fresh _
The only bad thing is is you you do have to make sure your bass players playing that with you
It's not something that you can always substitute over a 5-4
But a lot of times you can take your favorite blues tunes blues tunes make it a 5 or a 2 5 instead of a 5 4
_ And it will bring a whole new feel to the tunes
_ So hopefully that opened up a few things.
Hopefully that's something that you found helpful
If you have any questions or comments, please leave them in the comment section below and thank you very much for watching _ _ _ _