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pedrorolo

March 5, 2021 12:13:05

This topic is meant to be used to lay down blues chord progressions and suggested BPM/BPI configs; for instance:

Classic 8 Bar Blues
 I7  | V7  | IV7  | %
 I7  | V7  | I7   | V7

pedrorolo

March 5, 2021 12:17:31

 Classic 12 Bar Blues in G
 4/4 ~90BPM 48BPI
 G7  | %  | %  | %
 C7  | %  | G7 | %
 D7  | C7 | G7 | D7

Classic 12 bar blues shuffle

pedrorolo

March 5, 2021 12:18:31

 All Blues (Miles Davis)
 6/8 ~110BPM 72BPI (it does not work!!!! too many BPI) => possible with 40BPM and 24BPI with the metronome on every 3 tempos
 G7      | %           | %        | %
 C7      | %           | G7       | %
 D7#9    | Eb7#9  D7#9 | G7       | %

Chilled out and Jazzy

Sheet music with melody

pedrorolo

March 5, 2021 12:20:44

 Mr. Super Hip (Jamie Aebersold)
 4/4 ~90BPM 48BPI
 F-   | %     | %     | %
 Bb-  | %     | F-    | %
 G-/C | F-/Bb | G-/C  | F-/Bb

16th Beat funky

Music Sheet with melody

shawnb

March 6, 2021 23:55:23

We ran across the 6/8 issue with the bpi limitation as well…. 6 * 12 > the max of bpi 64.

However…

A bpi of 36 works perfectly. Whats also interesting is that syncing with a DAW, having jammr & the DAW at the same bpm worked fine. I thought i would need to cut a bpm by 1/2 to keep everything in sync, but that is not the case.

Functionally, 6/8 ends up being the same as 3/4.

Wayne Shorter's Footprints works well, also! Another 6/8 blues progression.