"twelve-bar blues" meaning in English

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Noun

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  1. (music) A blues form built on a twelve-measure chord progression, most typically based around the tonic, subdominant and dominant seventh chords of a key. Wikipedia link: twelve-bar blues Tags: plural, plural-only Categories (topical): Blues music, Music, Twelve Related terms: blues, eight-bar blues, turnaround
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