Mel Bay Publications
Level : Beginning-Intermediate
Online audio download available.

This user-friendly book, with access to online audio, shows how to transform standard three-chord blues changes into harmonically sophisticated jazz-blues progressions.The book covers chord substitution, twelve-bar blues, minor blues, eight-bar blues, and sixteen-bar blues. Chord frames are supplied for guitarists. Blank treble and bass staves are included for writing songs, licks, and solos. Also contains an appendix featuring a wealth of information about modern blues progressions and how to create them.

12 Bar Major Key Blues Progressions:
A Basic 12-Bar Major Key Blues Progression
Variation on the Basic Progression
Adding More Chord Voicings to the Basic Progression
12-Bar Blues with Dominant 9th Chords
12-Bar Blues with Dominant 7th and 9th Chords
12-Bar Blues with Dominant 13th Chords
Mixed 7ths, 9ths and 13ths
12-Bar Blues with Major 6th and 6/9 Chords
Mixed Dominant 7, 9, 13 and Major 6 and 6/9 Chords
Substitute Progressions for Measures 1-4
Substitute Progressions for Measures 5-8
Substitute Progressions for Measures 9-10
Turnarounds for Major Keys
Modern 12-Bar Major Key Blues Progression #1
Modern 12-Bar Major Key Blues Progression #2
Modern 12-Bar Major Key Blues Progression #3

12-Bar Minor Key Blues Progressions:
A Basic 12-Bar Minor Key Blues Progressions
Substitute Progressions for Measures 1-4
Substitute Progressions for Measures 5-8
Substitute Progressions for Measures 9-10
Turnarounds for Minor Keys
Modern 12-Bar Minor Key Blues Progression #1
Modern 12-Bar Minor Key Blues Progression #2

8-Bar Blues Progressions
16-Bar Blues Progressions