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Openings, Part 5 - From the V (Common Jam-safe Blues Openings)

Posted Wed, 08/03/2016 - 14:07 by David Barrett Admin
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The next most common place to open a song is from the V. This is bar 9 in the 12 Bar Blues Progression. Even though there is a V Chord associated with the turnaround in bar 12, it's known that "The V" only means bar 9.

There are three options to this opening type...

1) You and the entire band starts from the V ("All In")... "E, Shuffle, From the V, All In" continue reading...

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