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The 12-Bar Blues Shuffle in A
Three open chords, twelve bars, and one groove: an open-string root with a fifth for a beat, then a sixth for a beat.
Plain prints every note in black, without the color coding.
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Play each example here, or download it as an MP3 (audio) or a MIDI file.
The A7 shuffle, straight and swung
- The A7 shuffle bar twice, played straight (count-in first)0:11
- The same two bars swung, long–short (count-in first)0:11
The 12-bar chorus
- One full chorus in A, swung, with the chart’s changes (count-in first)0:34
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