#2 How to Create Interesting Guitar Riffs with the 12 Bar Blues

Do you know the A minor, D minor, and E minor chords? Well you can do a lot more with those three chords and a 12 bar than you might think. In this video I show you the

musical principles:

Funk Rule- Starting on the root note on the first beat of each measure. As long as you start on the root you can play whatever you want.

Technique- Take a technique like fingerpicking and add it to your chords.

Call and Response: Have one line of music that ascends the scale and then the next line descends the scale

Modulating Motifs: Take the same melody step wise, so one fret away a 6 to a 5 and do that for each chord in the 12 bar

Chord Voicings- Instead of using the Aminor chord at the open position find a triad on the guitar higher on the neck

Riff Farming- You have a line of music called A" the call” , then you second line is called B “response”, and then a transition line called “C”. You will use musical algebra to play the A line, B line, A line, C line.

Dynamics- How hard or soft you play the strings.

Texture- How many instruments are or harmony

Speed- changing the tempo or amount on notes in a measure or per minute

Pitch- high notes and low notes

Form (Chord Progression)

Tone/Timbre (High Gain Amps or Nylon Strings)

Articulations (sequencing)

Using the chords from Jam 3 in the No Bars Held Course. I show you how you can use musical elements and principles of creation to create with No Bars Held.