Btw: my sheet music is exactly what you hear from 2:00 to 2:36 in this old video:

Sophia Just wait until you discover 8-bar blues, 16-bar blues, and even 13&1/2-bar blues. (Not I'm not joking!)

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      Just when I thought I was close to a pro beginner, you reduced me to bloody beginner again. Not fair!

        Sophia "Reduced to a bloody beginner OVER AND OVER again" sounds like the perfect description of progress to me! 😃

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          TC3 Just wait until you discover 8-bar blues, 16-bar blues, and even 13&1/2-bar blues. (Not I'm not joking!)

          8-bar blues: video 7

          Curious abut 16-bar and 131/2 bar

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              WieWaldi

              13&1/2 isn't as weird as it sounds. If you think of the 12-bar blues as three groups of 4 measures, it's just adding two beats to each of those three. For example, a song might treat each of those groups of 4 as two bars singing and two bars of instrumental response, but add add two beats to the vocal line of the first two bars.

              For an example of 16-bar blues, Herbie Hancock's "Watermelon Man" comes to mind (though that's on the jazzier side).

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                TC3 Btw, Theophilus, in my video starting 2:36 you told me to stay staccato with left hand (1 year ago in the other forum). You are right. But it cost me a lot of time to get this into my hands. LH: staccato, RH: legato. And then the other way around. It drives me crazy. This is why I stuck in the 1st easy blues lesson right now. The only thing helping me out is a metronome 🛎️ 🥁🥁🥁, forcing me to keep slow tempo.

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                    WieWaldi Yeah, staccato one hand and legato the other is difficult for me too, in either combination. And of course, you can play the LH parts either way, even switch back and forth -- as long as it's on purpose! 😃

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                      Sophia The 3 bars, F7 C7 C7 are the simple body of the tune. The 2 bars below are to be substituted for the last 2 bars of C7, a classic ending phrase. If you play those triplets over a C7 chord however, it sounds terrible. Fine, with just the bass notes. The phrase implies a chord progression, and to actually see the tonality play, C7 under the first triplet, F#dim7 over the second, Fm6 over the third, then C, F, F#, G in the last bar, before returning to the top, or playing a final ending chord, which could be a simple Cmajor triad, or C9 for a more jazzy sound.

                        Well, I decided to compromise and just practiced the lesson with the sequences shown in the top line. That also means I'm just about done with the lesson (sorry WieWaldi) 😃 although I want it to sound a little more smoothly before I record it and continue to the next.

                          Sophia You want to skip the mother of all turnarounds? Frankly speaking, to be able to play the turnaround with a metronome cost me the same practicing time as the rest of the lesson. I always tended to slow down and call it "musical freedom".

                            Oh definitely not skipping it. You may remember (though hopefully not) the dreadful rendition in lesson 4.

                            But somehow, my ears don't like it very much following the G7 F7 sequence we're playing in this particular lesson.

                            Yeah, I know, bloody beginner and already picky 😅

                              Sophia ...bloody beginner and already picky 😅

                              Call it musical preference 🎻🎶

                                You're too kind, lol!

                                @Sophia It's like you are a 🐎💨 and I'm a 🐌. So I rushed out my next video,before you could post yours. This makes me a 🐢 - but not slower.
                                (Glad I distacted you with this turnaround and the mother of all the stuff thing 🥳)

                                Oooh lovely!!!!! Hit the Road Jack - one of my favourites! VERY well played and I can hear some very tricky fast bits too. I love all the variations and your new pro drummer. I hope you pay a good salary...

                                And you know who won the race between the 🐢 and the 🐰 right?

                                (now I must get some turn-around practice in which will delay my next video by at least 3 minutes to get that perfect... yeah I wish!!!)

                                  Sophia My new pro drummer? Yeah - he got some 🧇 and 🥮. Do you think this counts as duet?

                                    Of course! Next he'll demand equal billing - not shoved in the corner while you shine on the big screen 😃

                                    I am trying to think of an ending of my own imagination to this lesson. Of course my brain can create very complicated nice sounding licks, then I stare at my fingers and nothing happens 🥴 But maybe I can come up with one that is simple enough to play and that still counts as my own, not 100% included in the lesson...