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eight-bar_blues

eight-bar blues

English

Noun

eight-bar blues pl (plural only)

  1. (music) 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.

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