For guitarists, it is an essential part of our repertoire. It has been used to produce countless hits including outside of the blues genre. The 12 bar blues is one of the most popular chord progressions in all of music. We will also explore the minor blues scale and look at how it’s a perfect fit for the 12-bar blues chord progression. Advertisers' use of cookies is subject to their own respective privacy policies.In this lesson, we are going to look at the 12-bar blues, which is a popular chord progression used in countless songs. You do not need to have cookies turned on to use this site. If you've set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies, you will receive the warning message with each cookie. A cookie can't read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites.Web pages may also use a file called a web beacon, allowing a web site and third party advertisers to track users and access some cookies.Our third party advertisers may use cookies and web beacons to better deliver and track ads and their effectiveness.You can refuse cookies by turning them off in your browser. But the only personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply yourself. The cookie itself does not contain Personal Information although it will enable us to relate your use of this site to information that you have specifically and knowingly provided. We or third party advertisers may place a text file called a 'cookie' in the browser files of your computer.