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Voice leading options for 12 bar blues

Voice leading options for 12 bar blues
  1. How many phrases are in a 12-bar blues?
  2. What cords are used in the 12-bar blues?
  3. Is 12-bar blues Jazz?

How many phrases are in a 12-bar blues?

A 12-bar blues progression is composed of three (typically) four-bar phrases. The first phrase is entirely tonic harmony (I). The second phrase contains two bars of subdominant (IV) and two bars of tonic (I).

What cords are used in the 12-bar blues?

The standard 12-bar blues progression has three chords in it – the 1 chord, the 4 chord, and then the 5 chord. In the key of E blues, the 1 chord is an E, the 4 chord is an A, and the 5 chord is a B.

Is 12-bar blues Jazz?

Standard Jazz Blues Progressions

In contemporary jazz, a blues form typically means a repeating 12-bar progression—often in a horn-friendly key like F or Bb—with standard chord changes and common substitutions.

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