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5.34Jazz blues starts decorating the skeleton

A common jazz-blues form introduces more functional harmony.

One useful version:

| C7 | F7 | C7 | Gm7 C7 | | F7 | F♯°7 | C7/G | A7 | | Dm7 | G7 | C7 A7 | Dm7 G7 |

This is one of many jazz-blues variants.

Do not memorize it as the official jazz blues.

Learn what each change is doing.