Sixteen bar blues
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The sixteen bar blues can be a variation on an eight bar blues or the more standard twelve bar blues.
Any standard eight bar pattern can be viewed as a sixteen bar pattern played at twice the speed with the measures repeated.
More commonly, a sixteen bar blues is an extension of a twelve bar progression. In order to form a sixteen bar blues progression, the 9th and 10 chords are repeated:
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- Note (one chord per measure)
- T – tonic chord,
- S – subdominant chord
- D for the dominant chord,
A famous example of this blues progression is "Watermelon Man" by Herbie Hancock.
[edit] See also
- Eight bar blues
- Thirty-two-bar form
- Blues ballad
- Talking blues
- 50s progression another popular chord progression in Western popular music.
