English Explanatory Dictionary

eight-bar blues

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A blues form built on an eight-measure chord pattern, most typically I, I, IV, I, V7, IV, I, V7, where I, IV and V7 represent the tonic, subdominant and dominant seventh chords respectively.

Word forms

eight-bar blues

Related words

blues turnaround twelve-bar blues
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