Talk:Eight bar blues
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What about:
T T T7 T7 S S Sm Sm T T D7 D7 T T D7 D7
Seems to me (I could well be wrong) those are the chords to a lot of blues: "Ain't Nobody's Business", "Cherry Red", "In the Dark", etc.)
Um isn't "I Want A Little Girl" a 32 bar AABA? -- Infrogmation 21:38, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- It's an 8-bar blues with a bridge, as is "In the Dark." Maybe that point could be made in the article. John FitzGerald 18:13, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
I say we change this... This doesn't seem to be about 8-bar blues structure at all, honestly. Here are some blues songs that are actually 8-bar: Jim Lee (Charley Patton), Lord, Send Me An Angel (Blind Willie McTell), Crow Jane (Skip James), and Key To The Highway (Big Bill Broonzy). The structure is I7-V7-IV-IV7-I7-V7-I7-V7. 8 bars. I suggest this article be pasted into the 16-bar blues article, and a new 8 bar blues article be created. What do you all think?
D.E. Cottrell 04:52, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
I think the last guy is right. And i find it funny you americans can't even put up a correct blues page whereas it's basicaly your music.
[edit] Problematic article
"Brits and Jews are the saviors of the blues" say I, and I'm not either.
A pretty uniformative article overall. I don't think anyone who doesn't already play the blues could understand what these chord progressions are about.
I removed an example that was a twelve-bar blues (with feeble, wiki-exclusive lyrics).
This article, plus blues ballad and16-bar blues need to be looked at together.
Ortolan88 17:46, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Ain't Nobody's Business
Could someone confirm that the above track refers to Jimmy Witherspoon's 1949 hit? And if so, then "internal link" it to Witherspoon's article page. I don't agree that this article is only of interest to people who already olay the blues - I've always loved that track and would like to know a bit more about the blues. Thank you. 83.180.161.164 11:30, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
- Well Mr. 83, "Ain't Nobody's Business" is a blues standard, written back in the 1920s by a very little known piano player named Porter Grainger (no article at this writing). Witherspoon certainly had a hit on it (a hit that gave him a career, according to him), but before him came Dinah Washington, Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, etc.
- I didn't say the article was only of interest to people who already play the blues, I said the musical part about the chord progression was probably incomprehensible to someone who didn't already play.Ortolan88 18:32, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
- Just added "Ain't Nobody's Business". Ortolan88 20:47, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
