Sixteen bar blues

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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T ||T ||T ||T
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S ||S ||T ||T
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D ||S ||D ||S
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D ||S ||T ||T
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colspan=4|audio|Sixteen bar boogie-woogie blues in C.mid|Play in C

: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.

ee also

*Eight bar blues
*Thirty-two-bar form
*Blues ballad
*Talking blues
*50s progression another popular chord progression in Western popular music.