In music, an eight-bar blues is a common blues chord progression. Music writers have described it as "the second most common blues form" being "common...

The twelve-bar blues (or blues changes) is one of the most prominent chord progressions in popular music. The blues progression has a distinctive form...

The sixteen-bar blues can be a variation on the standard twelve-bar blues or on the less common eight-bar blues. Sixteen-bar blues is also used commonly...

twelve-bar blues. The progression uses a series of sequential ii–V or secondary ii–V progressions, and has been used in pieces such as Parker's "Blues for...

sequence 4 Mix. Circle progression 4 Major Coltrane changes 6 Major Eight-bar blues 3 Major Folia 4 Minor Irregular resolution (Type I: Two common tones...

a blues standard, regarded as one of the most interpreted songs in the genre. First recorded in 1940 by Tampa Red, the song is a mid-tempo eight-bar blues...

song conveys the feel and tone of a blues song, but does not follow any of the usual eight-bar blues or twelve-bar blues progressions. The song has harmonic...

or content. Rudi Blesh commented upon its importance as an archaic eight-bar blues which was "complete, harmonically and poetically". Rainey, previously...

cast members and the weekly hosts to attend Aykroyd's Holland Tunnel Blues bar, which he had rented not long after joining the cast. Aykroyd and Belushi...

(which is a dominant substitute). Thus when used in a twelve bar blues pattern, the twelfth bar may end on the dominant. All of the chords in a turnaround...