In this video, I want to cover a few 12 bar blues variations you might come across. The first variation is 12 bar blues, no turn around. It is a minor tweak compared to what we've seen before. Basically, it means that the band does not play the five chord at all in bar 12. In that situation, you might want to leave off the turnaround riff at the end typically hold to hold one hole one. The second variation is known as the quick change.

What happens is that the band goes to the four chord already in bar two, and then switch back to the one chord in bar three. Everything else is kept exactly the same. This changes the feeling of the round a little bit and it's an opportunity for you To throw in some one chord tones already bought to. The last variation I want to cover is known as 12 bar blues long five chord. What happens here is that in both not bar nine and bar 10, we played the five chord instead of the standard five chord followed by the four chord. In this case, you're probably better off not using the standard five for one turn around riffs and simply play chord tones from the five chord during bar nine and bar 10.

By some accounts, this is the original version of the 12 bar blues, but it's not very common today. So now we've covered three variations of the 12 bar blues, and I also want to mention that you can come across basically any combination of this so you can You can come across a 12 bar blues with a quick change, no turn around and the long five chord. It's all in a day's work basically. Now it's time to wrap things up.