Blues forms

Gospel Blues (IV-iv Move)

Church-style blues with the characteristic IV to iv minor move.

Key
F
Level
intermediate
Tempo
Medium groove (100-130 BPM)

The form

  1. bar 1F7
  2. bar 2F7
  3. bar 3F7
  4. bar 4F7
  5. bar 5Bb7
  6. bar 6Bbm7
  7. bar 7F7
  8. bar 8D7
  9. bar 9Gm7
  10. bar 10C7
  11. bar 11F7
  12. bar 12Gm7-C7

One bar carries two chords. The transcription writes both chords' notes together without saying which note belongs to which, so that bar is printed and not drawn — a keyboard guessed from an ambiguous line would show a chord nobody plays.

The hands

Left hand then right, as the source writes them. A pianist's voicing routinely carries a colour the chord symbol does not spell — a flat ninth over a dominant, a ninth on top of a seventh chord — so the notes printed under each keyboard are what is actually played, rather than what the symbol alone would predict.

F7

bar 1 · bar 2 · bar 3 · bar 4 · bar 7 · bar 11

LH F2 C3RH A3 Eb4 G4

Bb7

bar 5

LH Bb2 F3RH D4 Ab4 C5

Bbm7

bar 6

LH Bb2 F3RH Db4 Ab4 C5

Minor iv - gospel move

D7

bar 8

LH D3 A3RH F#4 C5 Eb5

Gm7

bar 9

LH G2 D3RH Bb3 F4 A4

C7

bar 10

LH C3 G3RH E4 Bb4 D5

Associated players

  • Cory Henry
  • Ray Charles