Hi Arthur, thank you so much for your amazingly quick response to my query, I will follow your advice for items 1 & 2.
I am sorry to bother you some more, but I am still at a loss in dealing with track 35 in 12 bar blues. I will try and rephrase my query:
Track 35 is a four bars long and therefore fits perfectly for the first 4 bars of the 1st (root) chord of the 12 bar blues format. Changing to the iv chord at the end of the 4th bar is easy as I just use the root of the iv chord on the last beat of the 4th bar as the pickup note (as indicated in track 27 in the book).
However, the ivth is played for just two bars; how do I get back to the 1st? The 1st is also played for only two bars; how do I get to the vth? For the next three bars (iv to v to 1st), I assume I can just play the first bar of the phrase. This bar ends on the root, which I can substitute for the root of the next chord I want to play. The last bar is a turnaround. I hope this all makes sense!
However, just rereading your response above; are you saying that I just play the same 4 bar phrase in the root chord for whatever key I choose, for the whole 12 bars, only changing the left hand to make the chord changes, in other words I don't play the right hand of the phrase in the ivth and vth chords?
Regards,
Dave M