eight-bar blues

== English == === Noun === eight-bar blues (countable and uncountable, plural eight-bar blues) (music) A blues form built on an eight-measure chord pattern, most typically I, I, IV, I, V7, IV, I, V7, where I, IV and V7 represent the tonic, subdominant and dominant seventh chords respectively. === See also === blues turnaround twelve-bar blues