24 bar blues

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- October 20, 2024 at 7:39 am #380474
  charjo
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  Brian finally added the Soundslice to lesson EP 591 and I just realized this composition is a 24 bar major blues. Each chord in the progression gets double time. The turnaround becomes 4 bars.
  I seem to recall only one other 24 bar blues in Brian’s archive, Ep 414, a slow minor blues.
  John
- October 20, 2024 at 9:07 am #380477
  Jean-Michel G
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  Mmmm…
  The thing is, this composition uses a 6/8 time signature, which is a duple compound meter (2 beats per bar). Had he used 12/8 instead, he would have had 4 beats per bar (quadruple compound meter- and only half the number of bars… And 12/8 feels a lot like 4/4 with triplets, the “traditional” 12 bar blues.
- October 20, 2024 at 10:22 am #380479
  charjo
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  Hmmm…
  Same timing in EP 414 so maybe not really a true 24 bar blues.
  John
- October 20, 2024 at 12:08 pm #380482
  Richard W
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  Yeah, I wondered about the 6/8 time signature too. Wonder if there was any particular rationale for choosing that.
- October 23, 2024 at 4:49 am #380552
  Jean-Michel G
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  I’m not sure… It’s not a very common time signature for the blues, unlike 12/8.
  I suppose Brian must have felt a strong binary pulse instead of the more traditional quaternary one?
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