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...

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...

"Sweet Sixteen Bars". Twelve-bar blues Sixteen-bar blues Thirty-two-bar form Riker, Wayne (1994). Complete Blues Guitar Method: Mastering Blues Guitar...

to the 1976 single "Shake Your Booty". Structurally, it uses the sixteen-bar blues chord progression. As with several of KC's disco songs, some of the...

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...

distinguishing it from the blues. Blues rock songs often follow typical blues structures, such as twelve-bar blues, sixteen-bar blues, etc. They also use the...

Rhythm changes 15 Major Romanesca 3 Major Sixteen-bar blues 3 Major Stomp progression 6 Major Twelve-bar blues 3 Major I−vi−ii−V 4 Major ♭VII–V7 cadence...

his strongest pieces structurally. "Watermelon Man" is written in a sixteen-bar blues form. Recalling the piece, Hancock said, "I remember the cry of the...

composition independent of its specific key. For example, the ubiquitous twelve-bar blues progression uses the tonic (I), subdominant IV, and dominant (V) chords...

(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...