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*"[[Worried Life Blues]]" ([[Big Maceo]], 1941)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bluesguitarinstitute.com/8-bar-blues/ |title=Eight-bar blues Big Maceo |date=10 January 2013 |access-date=14 July 2020}}</ref>
*"[[Worried Life Blues]]" ([[Big Maceo]], 1941)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bluesguitarinstitute.com/8-bar-blues/ |title=Eight-bar blues Big Maceo |date=10 January 2013 |access-date=14 July 2020}}</ref>
   
   
One variant using this progression is to couple one eight-bar blues melody with a different eight-bar blues [[bridge (music)|bridge]] to create a blues variant of the standard [[thirty-two-bar form|32-bar song]]:<ref>Michael Pilhofer and Holly Day, ''Music Theory For Dummies'' (London: John Wiley & Sons, 2011), 244. {{ISBN|111805444X}}</ref> "I Want a Little Girl" ([[T-Bone Walker]]) and "[[Great Balls of Fire]]" ([[Jerry Lee Lewis]])(<ref>Form in Rock Music: A Primer, p. 70.</ref>
One variant using this progression is to couple one eight-bar blues melody with a different eight-bar blues [[bridge (music)|bridge]] to create a blues variant of the standard [[thirty-two-bar form|32-bar song]]:<ref>Michael Pilhofer and Holly Day, ''Music Theory For Dummies'' (London: John Wiley & Sons, 2011), 244. {{ISBN|111805444X}}</ref> "I Want a Little Girl" ([[T-Bone Walker]]) and "[[Great Balls of Fire]]" ([[Jerry Lee Lewis]])<ref>Form in Rock Music: A Primer, p. 70.</ref>


Eight-bar blues progressions have more variations than the more rigidly defined twelve bar format. The move to the IV chord usually happens at bar 3 (as opposed to 5 in twelve bar); however, "the I chord moving to the V chord right away, in the second measure, is a characteristic of the eight-bar blues."<ref name="Riker"/>
Eight-bar blues progressions have more variations than the more rigidly defined twelve bar format. The move to the IV chord usually happens at bar 3 (as opposed to 5 in twelve bar); however, "the I chord moving to the V chord right away, in the second measure, is a characteristic of the eight-bar blues."<ref name="Riker"/>
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