Harmonica Blessing #3 - Improvising in the 12 Bar Blues

The 12 Bar Blues offers harmonica players a consistent structure to play over. Most other styles contain a form that commonly changes from song to song (length and chords used), making each song played unique. With the consistent structure of blues, the licks and movements learned in one song are very applicable to being used in another song. Upon learning a number of shuffles for example, this shuffle lick vocabulary can lead to the opportunity to use them again in your own arrangement while improvising to a new shuffle. So, in the end, the harmonica player is able to approach improvising MUCH sooner than most other instruments.