The 12-bar blues is a musical entity that you should know well. Visit Wikipedia to learn its history.
Here’s a track you can use for rehearsal and/or performance of a 12-bar blues song, plus a chart in case you have a live accompanist on keyboard or guitar! It’s from the CD that comes with the book, “Musical Direction for Improv and Sketch Comedy.” The 12-bar blues is a great platform for improvising both the singing and the accompaniment – lots of room for vocal and instrumental fun, using a framework that is so easy to learn.
The audience loves a tasty blues gro0ve and I always encourage singers to go crazy creating a character who is, of course, the definitive Blues Legend. If it’s a duet, trio or quartet, we can thrill to MULTIPLE blues legends in concert. Very funny.
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