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  • The 12 bar blues are a set of 12 chords, C, C, C, C, F, F, C, C, G, F, C, C or G.
  • For each chord there is 4 beats.
  • The walking bass an the 12 bar blues can be played together (i tried it at school and it sounds really rubbish because i tried it and it all went wrong so never try it again and foollow dooger jam's advice bye:)
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12 bar blues is oe of the most popular chords in the blue style music

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It is called the twelve bar blues because it has twelve bars in it in sequence it should go like this:

I/I/I/I

IV/IV/I/I

V/IV/I/I

(/ resembling the bar line)

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12-bar blues is a commonly used term, especially in the musical community. 12-bar blues is the number of measures, or musical bars which are commonly used in blues songs.

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