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Blues forms

Minor Blues in C

Dark, moody blues with minor tonality. Essential for jazz ballads.

Key
C
Level
intermediate
Tempo
Slow to Medium (80-120 BPM)

The form

  1. bar 1Cm7
  2. bar 2Cm7
  3. bar 3Cm7
  4. bar 4Cm7
  5. bar 5Fm7
  6. bar 6Fm7
  7. bar 7Cm7
  8. bar 8Cm7
  9. bar 9Dm7b5
  10. bar 10G7alt
  11. bar 11Cm7
  12. bar 12Dm7b5-G7

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.

Cm7

bar 1 · bar 2 · bar 3 · bar 4 · bar 7 · bar 8 · bar 11

LH C3 G3RH Eb4 Bb4 D5

Fm7

bar 5 · bar 6

LH F3 C4RH Ab4 Eb5 G5

Dm7b5

bar 9

LH D3 Ab3RH F4 C5 Eb5

G7alt

bar 10

LH G2 Db3RH B3 F4 Ab4

Associated players