3 styles
Music family
Blues
Twelve bars, blue notes and string bends: pain sung into groove.
The Blues page covers the acoustic Delta tradition; electric blues is Chicago's plugged-in version, leading straight to rock.
What they share
- 12-bar form
- Blue notes and bends
- Call-and-response singing
How to choose
- Acoustic DeltaBlues
- Chicago electricChicago / Electric Blues
- Slide guitar by the riverDelta Blues
Starter prompt
Blues, 85 BPM shuffle, 12-bar form, crying slide guitar, harmonica, walking bass, gritty male vocals, late-night barA general starting point for this family; swap in a specific style’s keywords for sharper results.
Side by side
| Style | Era | BPM | Mood | Good for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Delta Blues | 1920s–1940s | 70–120 | Melancholy & lonelyNostalgicDark & heavy | Travel & road trips · Memories & farewells |
| Blues | Late 1800s–early 1900s | 60–120 | Melancholy & lonelyCity nightWarm & intimate | Night drives & city walks · Memories & farewells |
| Chicago / Electric Blues | 1950s–present | 70–130 | Melancholy & lonelyCity nightWarm & intimate | Night drives & city walks · Memories & farewells |
All styles
- Delta Blues
One acoustic guitar, a bottleneck slide and a rough voice: the earliest, rawest blues from the Mississippi riverbank.
- Blues
Hardship sung into twelve bars, giving sorrow a shape you can sway to together.
- Chicago / Electric Blues
Blues plugged in: crying string bends and wailing harmonica, a small Chicago bar on a winter night.