16 bar blues
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The 16-bar blues can be a variation on an 8-bar blues or the more standard 12-bar blues.
Any standard 8-bar pattern can be viewed as a 16-bar pattern played at twice the speed with the measures repeated.
More commonly, a 16-bar blues is an extension of a 12-bar progression. In order to form a 16-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.he:בלוז 16 תיבות
