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title="Boogie-woogie">boogie woogie</a> <a href="/wiki/Bassline" title="Bassline">bassline</a> for 8-bar blues progression in C, chord <a href="/wiki/Root_(chord)" title="Root (chord)">roots</a> in red. <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1235681985">.mw-parser-output .side-box{margin:4px 0;box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid #aaa;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em;background-color:var(--background-color-interactive-subtle,#f8f9fa);display:flow-root}.mw-parser-output .side-box-abovebelow,.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{padding:0.25em 0.9em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-image{padding:2px 0 2px 0.9em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-imageright{padding:2px 0.9em 2px 0;text-align:center}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .side-box-flex{display:flex;align-items:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{flex:1;min-width:0}}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .side-box{width:238px}.mw-parser-output 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See <a href="/wiki/Help:Media" title="Help:Media">media help</a>.</i></div> </div></figcaption></figure> <p>In music, an <b>eight-bar blues</b> is a common <a href="/wiki/Blues" title="Blues">blues</a> <a href="/wiki/Chord_progression" title="Chord progression">chord progression</a>. Music writers have described it as "the second most common blues form"<sup id="cite_ref-Riker_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Riker-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> being "common to folk, rock, and jazz forms of the blues".<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is often notated in <a href="/wiki/Time_signature" title="Time signature"><span class="music-symbol" style="font-family: Arial Unicode MS, Lucida Sans Unicode;"><span class="serif-fonts" style="font-family: 'Georgia Pro', Georgia, 'DejaVu Serif', Times, 'Times New Roman', FreeSerif, 'DejaVu Math TeX', 'URW Bookman L', serif;"><span class="nowrap"><span style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:-0.3em;vertical-align:-0.4em;line-height:0.85em;font-size:80%;text-align:center"><sup style="font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><b>4</b></sup><br /><sub style="font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><b>4</b></sub></span></span></span></span></a> or <span class="music-symbol" style="font-family: Arial Unicode MS, Lucida Sans Unicode;"><span class="serif-fonts" style="font-family: 'Georgia Pro', Georgia, 'DejaVu Serif', Times, 'Times New Roman', FreeSerif, 'DejaVu Math TeX', 'URW Bookman L', serif;"><span class="nowrap"><span style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:-0.3em;vertical-align:-0.4em;line-height:0.85em;font-size:80%;text-align:center"><sup style="font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><b>12</b></sup><br /><sub style="font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><b>8</b></sub></span></span></span></span> time with eight <a href="/wiki/Bar_(music)" title="Bar (music)">bars</a> to the <a href="/wiki/Verse_(music)" class="mw-redirect" title="Verse (music)">verse</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Overview">Overview</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Eight-bar_blues&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Overview"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Early examples of eight-bar <a href="/wiki/Blues_standards" class="mw-redirect" title="Blues standards">blues standards</a> include: </p> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/Ain%27t_Nobody%27s_Business_If_I_Do" class="mw-redirect" title="Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do">Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do</a>" (<a href="/wiki/Sara_Martin" title="Sara Martin">Sara Martin</a>, 1922)<sup id="cite_ref-Leonard_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Leonard-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Trouble_in_Mind_(song)" title="Trouble in Mind (song)">Trouble in Mind</a>" (<a href="/wiki/Bertha_Hill" title="Bertha Hill">Bertha Hill</a>, 1926)<sup id="cite_ref-Leonard_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Leonard-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/How_Long,_How_Long_Blues" title="How Long, How Long Blues">How Long Blues</a>" (<a href="/wiki/Leroy_Carr" title="Leroy Carr">Leroy Carr</a>, 1928)<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Nobody_Knows_You_When_You%27re_Down_and_Out" title="Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out">Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out</a>" (<a href="/wiki/Bessie_Smith" title="Bessie Smith">Bessie Smith</a>, 1929)<sup id="cite_ref-Leonard_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Leonard-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/It_Hurts_Me_Too" title="It Hurts Me Too">It Hurts Me Too</a>" (<a href="/wiki/Tampa_Red" title="Tampa Red">Tampa Red</a>, 1940)<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Key_to_the_Highway" title="Key to the Highway">Key to the Highway</a>" (<a href="/wiki/Big_Bill_Broonzy" title="Big Bill Broonzy">Big Bill Broonzy</a>, 1941)<sup id="cite_ref-Inside_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Inside-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Worried_Life_Blues" title="Worried Life Blues">Worried Life Blues</a>" (<a href="/wiki/Big_Maceo" class="mw-redirect" title="Big Maceo">Big Maceo</a>, 1941)<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <p>One variant using this progression is to couple one eight-bar blues melody with a different eight-bar blues <a href="/wiki/Bridge_(music)" title="Bridge (music)">bridge</a> to create a blues variant of the standard <a href="/wiki/Thirty-two-bar_form" title="Thirty-two-bar form">32-bar song</a>:<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> "I Want a Little Girl" (<a href="/wiki/T-Bone_Walker" title="T-Bone Walker">T-Bone Walker</a>) and "<a href="/wiki/Great_Balls_of_Fire" title="Great Balls of Fire">Great Balls of Fire</a>" (<a href="/wiki/Jerry_Lee_Lewis" title="Jerry Lee Lewis">Jerry Lee Lewis</a>)(<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Eight-bar blues progressions have more variations than the more rigidly defined twelve bar format. The move to the IV chord usually happens at bar 3 (as opposed to 5 in twelve bar); however, "the I chord moving to the V chord right away, in the second measure, is a characteristic of the eight-bar blues."<sup id="cite_ref-Riker_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Riker-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the following examples each box represents a 'bar' of music (the specific time signature is not relevant). The chord in the box is played for the full bar. If two chords are in the box they are each played for half a bar, etc. The chords are represented as <a href="/wiki/Scale_degree" class="mw-redirect" title="Scale degree">scale degrees</a> in <a href="/wiki/Roman_numeral_analysis" title="Roman numeral analysis">Roman numeral analysis</a>. Roman numerals are used so the musician may understand the progression of the chords regardless of the key it is played in. </p><p>"Eight-bar blues chord progression":<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <dl><dd><table class="wikitable" style="text-align:left; width:250px;"> <tbody><tr> <td width="25%">I </td> <td width="25%">V<sup>7</sup> </td> <td width="25%">IV<sup>7</sup> </td> <td width="25%">IV<sup>7</sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td>I</td> <td>V<sup>7</sup>  IV<sup>7</sup></td> <td>I</td> <td>V<sup>7</sup> </td></tr> </tbody></table></dd></dl> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1235681985"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1096940132"><div class="side-box side-box-right listen noprint"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"> <div class="side-box-flex"> <div class="side-box-image"><figure class="mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Gnome-mime-sound-openclipart.svg/50px-Gnome-mime-sound-openclipart.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="50" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Gnome-mime-sound-openclipart.svg/75px-Gnome-mime-sound-openclipart.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Gnome-mime-sound-openclipart.svg/100px-Gnome-mime-sound-openclipart.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="160" data-file-height="160" /></span><figcaption></figcaption></figure></div> <div class="side-box-text plainlist"><div class="haudio"> <div class="listen-file-header"><a href="/wiki/File:Eight_bar_blues.mid" title="File:Eight bar blues.mid">Eight-bar blues chord progression in C</a></div> <div><span typeof="mw:File"><span><audio id="mwe_player_1" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="232" style="width:232px;" data-mwtitle="Eight_bar_blues.mid" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0f/Eight_bar_blues.mid" type="audio/midi" data-width="0" data-height="0" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/0f/Eight_bar_blues.mid/Eight_bar_blues.mid.ogg" type="audio/ogg; codecs="vorbis"" data-transcodekey="ogg" data-width="0" data-height="0" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/0f/Eight_bar_blues.mid/Eight_bar_blues.mid.mp3" type="audio/mpeg" data-transcodekey="mp3" data-width="0" data-height="0" /></audio></span></span></div> <div class="description"></div></div></div></div> <div class="side-box-abovebelow"><hr /><i class="selfreference">Problems playing this file? See <a href="/wiki/Help:Media" title="Help:Media">media help</a>.</i></div> </div> <p>"<a href="/wiki/Worried_Life_Blues" title="Worried Life Blues">Worried Life Blues</a>" (probably the most common eight-bar blues progression): </p> <dl><dd><table class="wikitable" style="text-align:left; width:250px;"> <tbody><tr> <td width="25%">I </td> <td width="25%">I </td> <td width="25%">IV </td> <td width="25%">IV </td></tr> <tr> <td>I</td> <td>V</td> <td>I IV</td> <td>I V </td></tr> </tbody></table></dd></dl> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1235681985"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1096940132"><div class="side-box side-box-right listen noprint"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"> <div class="side-box-flex"> <div class="side-box-image"><figure class="mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Gnome-mime-sound-openclipart.svg/50px-Gnome-mime-sound-openclipart.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="50" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Gnome-mime-sound-openclipart.svg/75px-Gnome-mime-sound-openclipart.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Gnome-mime-sound-openclipart.svg/100px-Gnome-mime-sound-openclipart.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="160" data-file-height="160" /></span><figcaption></figcaption></figure></div> <div class="side-box-text plainlist"><div class="haudio"> <div class="listen-file-header"><a href="/wiki/File:Eight_bar_blues_progression_in_C.mid" title="File:Eight bar blues progression in C.mid">Eight-bar blues progression in C</a></div> <div><span typeof="mw:File"><span><audio id="mwe_player_2" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="232" style="width:232px;" data-mwtitle="Eight_bar_blues_progression_in_C.mid" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/69/Eight_bar_blues_progression_in_C.mid" type="audio/midi" data-width="0" data-height="0" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/69/Eight_bar_blues_progression_in_C.mid/Eight_bar_blues_progression_in_C.mid.ogg" type="audio/ogg; codecs="vorbis"" data-transcodekey="ogg" data-width="0" data-height="0" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/69/Eight_bar_blues_progression_in_C.mid/Eight_bar_blues_progression_in_C.mid.mp3" type="audio/mpeg" data-transcodekey="mp3" data-width="0" data-height="0" /></audio></span></span></div> <div class="description"></div></div></div></div> <div class="side-box-abovebelow"><hr /><i class="selfreference">Problems playing this file? See <a href="/wiki/Help:Media" title="Help:Media">media help</a>.</i></div> </div> <p>"<a href="/wiki/Heartbreak_Hotel" title="Heartbreak Hotel">Heartbreak Hotel</a>" (variation with the I on the first half): </p> <dl><dd><table class="wikitable" style="text-align:left; width:250px;"> <tbody><tr> <td width="25%">I </td> <td width="25%"><b>I</b> </td> <td width="25%">I </td> <td width="25%">I </td></tr> <tr> <td>IV</td> <td>IV</td> <td>V</td> <td>I </td></tr> </tbody></table></dd></dl> <p><a href="/wiki/J._B._Lenoir" title="J. B. Lenoir">J. B. Lenoir</a>'s "Slow Down"<sup id="cite_ref-Harmonica_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Harmonica-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and "Key to the Highway" (variation with the V at bar 2): </p> <dl><dd><table class="wikitable" style="text-align:left; width:250px;"> <tbody><tr> <td width="25%">I<sup>7</sup> </td> <td width="25%"><b>V</b><sup>7</sup> </td> <td width="25%">IV<sup>7</sup> </td> <td width="25%">IV<sup>7</sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td>I<sup>7</sup></td> <td>V<sup>7</sup></td> <td>I<sup>7</sup></td> <td>V<sup>7</sup> </td></tr> </tbody></table><sup id="cite_ref-Riker_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Riker-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <p>"Get a Haircut" by <a href="/wiki/George_Thorogood" title="George Thorogood">George Thorogood</a> (simple progression): </p> <dl><dd><table class="wikitable" style="text-align:left; width:250px;"> <tbody><tr> <td width="25%">I </td> <td width="25%">I </td> <td width="25%">I </td> <td width="25%">I </td></tr> <tr> <td>IV</td> <td>IV</td> <td>V</td> <td>V </td></tr> </tbody></table></dd></dl> <p><a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Rogers" title="Jimmy Rogers">Jimmy Rogers</a>' "Walkin' By Myself"<sup id="cite_ref-Harmonica_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Harmonica-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (somewhat unorthodox example of the form): </p> <dl><dd><table class="wikitable" style="text-align:left; width:250px;"> <tbody><tr> <td width="25%">I<sup>7</sup> </td> <td width="25%">I<sup>7</sup> </td> <td width="25%">I<sup>7</sup> </td> <td width="25%">I<sup>7</sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td>IV<sup>7</sup></td> <td>V<sup>7</sup></td> <td>I<sup>7</sup></td> <td>V<sup>7</sup> </td></tr> </tbody></table></dd></dl> <p><a href="/wiki/Howlin_Wolf" class="mw-redirect" title="Howlin Wolf">Howlin Wolf</a>'s version of "<a href="/wiki/Sitting_on_Top_of_the_World" title="Sitting on Top of the World">Sitting on Top of the World</a>" is actually a 9 bar blues that adds an extra "V" chord at the end of the progression. The song uses movement between major and dominant 7th and major and minor fourth: </p> <dl><dd><table class="wikitable" style="text-align:left; width:250px;"> <tbody><tr> <td width="25%">I </td> <td width="25%">I<sup>7</sup> </td> <td width="25%">IV </td> <td width="25%">iv </td></tr> <tr> <td>I<sup>7</sup></td> <td>V</td> <td>I<sup>7</sup> IV</td> <td>I<sup>7</sup> V </td></tr> </tbody></table></dd></dl> <p>The first four bar progression used by Wolf is also used in <a href="/wiki/Nina_Simone" title="Nina Simone">Nina Simone</a>'s 1965 version of "<a href="/wiki/Trouble_in_Mind_(song)" title="Trouble in Mind (song)">Trouble in Mind</a>", but with a more <a href="/wiki/Uptempo" class="mw-redirect" title="Uptempo">uptempo</a> beat than "Sitting on Top of the World": </p> <dl><dd><table class="wikitable" style="text-align:left; width:250px;"> <tbody><tr> <td width="25%">I </td> <td width="25%">I<sup>7</sup> </td> <td width="25%">IV </td> <td width="25%">iv </td></tr> <tr> <td>I VI<sup>7</sup></td> <td>ii V</td> <td>I IV</td> <td>I V </td></tr> </tbody></table></dd></dl> <p>The progression may be created by dropping the first four bars from the <a href="/wiki/Twelve-bar_blues" title="Twelve-bar blues">twelve-bar blues</a>, as in the <a href="/wiki/Solo_(music)" title="Solo (music)">solo</a> section of <a href="/wiki/Bonnie_Raitt" title="Bonnie Raitt">Bonnie Raitt</a>'s "Love Me Like a Man" and <a href="/wiki/Buddy_Guy" title="Buddy Guy">Buddy Guy</a>'s "Mary Had a Little Lamb":<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <dl><dd><table class="wikitable" style="text-align:left; width:250px;"> <tbody><tr> <td width="25%">IV<sup>7</sup> </td> <td width="25%">IV<sup>7</sup> </td> <td width="25%">I<sup>7</sup> </td> <td width="25%">I<sup>7</sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td>V<sup>7</sup></td> <td>IV<sup>7</sup></td> <td>I<sup>7</sup></td> <td>V<sup>7</sup> </td></tr> </tbody></table></dd></dl> <p>There are at least a few very successful songs using somewhat unusual chord progressions as well. For example, the song "<a href="/wiki/Ain%27t_Nobody%27s_Business" title="Ain't Nobody's Business">Ain't Nobody's Business</a>" as performed by <a href="/wiki/Freddie_King" title="Freddie King">Freddie King</a> at least, uses a I–III–IV–iv progression in each of the first four bars. The same four bar progression is used by the band <a href="/wiki/Radiohead" title="Radiohead">Radiohead</a> to make up the bulk of the song "<a href="/wiki/Creep_(Radiohead_song)" title="Creep (Radiohead song)">Creep</a>". </p> <dl><dd><table class="wikitable" style="text-align:left; width:250px;"> <tbody><tr> <td width="25%">I </td> <td width="25%">III </td> <td width="25%">IV </td> <td width="25%">iv </td></tr> <tr> <td>I</td> <td>vi</td> <td>ii</td> <td>V<sup>7</sup> </td></tr> </tbody></table></dd></dl> <p>The same chord progression can also be called a <a href="/wiki/Sixteen-bar_blues" title="Sixteen-bar blues">sixteen-bar blues</a>, if each symbol above is taken to be a half note in <span class="music-symbol" style="font-family: Arial Unicode MS, Lucida Sans Unicode;"><span class="serif-fonts" style="font-family: 'Georgia Pro', Georgia, 'DejaVu Serif', Times, 'Times New Roman', FreeSerif, 'DejaVu Math TeX', 'URW Bookman L', serif;"><span class="nowrap"><span style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:-0.3em;vertical-align:-0.4em;line-height:0.85em;font-size:80%;text-align:center"><sup style="font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><b>2</b></sup><br /><sub style="font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><b>2</b></sub></span></span></span></span> or <span class="music-symbol" style="font-family: Arial Unicode MS, Lucida Sans Unicode;"><span class="serif-fonts" style="font-family: 'Georgia Pro', Georgia, 'DejaVu Serif', Times, 'Times New Roman', FreeSerif, 'DejaVu Math TeX', 'URW Bookman L', serif;"><span class="nowrap"><span style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:-0.3em;vertical-align:-0.4em;line-height:0.85em;font-size:80%;text-align:center"><sup style="font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><b>4</b></sup><br /><sub style="font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><b>4</b></sub></span></span></span></span> time. Examples are "<a href="/wiki/Nine_Pound_Hammer" title="Nine Pound Hammer">Nine Pound Hammer</a>"<sup id="cite_ref-Inside_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Inside-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Ray_Charles" title="Ray Charles">Ray Charles</a>'s original <a href="/wiki/Instrumental" title="Instrumental">instrumental</a> "Sweet Sixteen Bars". </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Eight-bar_blues&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Twelve-bar_blues" title="Twelve-bar blues">Twelve-bar blues</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sixteen-bar_blues" title="Sixteen-bar blues">Sixteen-bar blues</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thirty-two-bar_form" title="Thirty-two-bar form">Thirty-two-bar form</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sources">Sources</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Eight-bar_blues&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Sources"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-Riker-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Riker_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Riker_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Riker_1-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFRiker1994" class="citation book cs1">Riker, Wayne (1994). <i>Complete Blues Guitar Method: Mastering Blues Guitar</i>. 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navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Three-chord_song" title="Three-chord song">Three</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/I%E2%80%93IV%E2%80%93V%E2%80%93I" title="I–IV–V–I">I–IV–V–I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ii%E2%80%93V%E2%80%93I_progression" title="Ii–V–I progression">ii–V–I turnaround</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/V%E2%80%93IV%E2%80%93I_turnaround" title="V–IV–I turnaround">V–IV–I turnaround</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%E2%99%ADVII%E2%80%93V7_cadence" title="♭VII–V7 cadence"><span class="music-symbol" style="font-family: Arial Unicode MS, Lucida Sans Unicode;"><span class="music-flat">♭</span></span>VII–V<sup>7</sup> cadence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Backdoor_progression" title="Backdoor progression">Backdoor progression</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Eight-bar blues</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Twelve-bar_blues" title="Twelve-bar blues">Twelve-bar blues</a> (<a href="/wiki/Bird_changes" title="Bird changes">"Bird" changes</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sixteen-bar_blues" title="Sixteen-bar blues">Sixteen-bar blues</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Passamezzo_moderno" title="Passamezzo moderno">Passamezzo moderno</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;">Four</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/%2750s_progression" title="'50s progression">'50s progression</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andalusian_cadence" title="Andalusian cadence">Andalusian cadence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fol%C3%ADa" class="mw-redirect" title="Folía">Folía</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vi%E2%80%93ii%E2%80%93V%E2%80%93I" title="Vi–ii–V–I">vi–ii–V–I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Montgomery-Ward_bridge" title="Montgomery-Ward bridge">Montgomery-Ward bridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Passamezzo_antico" title="Passamezzo antico">Passamezzo antico</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/I%E2%80%93V%E2%80%93vi%E2%80%93IV_progression" title="I–V–vi–IV progression">I–V–vi–IV</a> (<a href="/wiki/List_of_songs_containing_the_I%E2%80%93V%E2%80%93vi%E2%80%93IV_progression" class="mw-redirect" title="List of songs containing the I–V–vi–IV progression">list</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/IV%E2%96%B37%E2%80%93V7%E2%80%93iii7%E2%80%93vi_progression" class="mw-redirect" title="IV△7–V7–iii7–vi progression">IV<sup>△7</sup>–V<sup>7</sup>–iii<sup>7</sup>–vi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Romanesca" title="Romanesca">Romanesca</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tadd_Dameron_turnaround" title="Tadd Dameron turnaround">Tadd Dameron turnaround</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">By name</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/%2750s_progression" title="'50s progression">50s</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andalusian_cadence" title="Andalusian cadence">Andalusian cadence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Backdoor_progression" title="Backdoor progression">Backdoor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bird_changes" title="Bird changes">"Bird" changes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Contrafact" title="Contrafact">Borrowed (contrafact)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Circle_progression" class="mw-redirect" title="Circle progression">Circle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coltrane_changes" title="Coltrane changes">Coltrane changes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Omnibus_progression" title="Omnibus progression">Omnibus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Passamezzo_antico" title="Passamezzo antico">Passamezzo antico</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Passamezzo_moderno" title="Passamezzo moderno">Passamezzo moderno</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ragtime_progression" title="Ragtime progression">Ragtime</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Royal_road_progression" title="Royal road progression">Royal road progression</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rhythm_changes" title="Rhythm changes">"Rhythm" changes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stomp_progression" title="Stomp progression">Stomp</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tadd_Dameron_turnaround" title="Tadd Dameron turnaround">Tadd-Dameron</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Montgomery-Ward_bridge" title="Montgomery-Ward bridge">Montgomery-Ward bridge</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Related</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aeolian_mode#Aeolian_harmony" title="Aeolian mode">Aeolian harmony</a></li> 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