export default [ { id: 'blues-12bar', name: 'Standard 12-bar', rn: ['I7', 'I7', 'I7', 'I7', 'IV7', 'IV7', 'I7', 'I7', 'V7', 'IV7', 'I7', 'V7'], degrees: [0, 0, 0, 0, 5, 5, 0, 0, 7, 5, 0, 7], qualities: ['dom7', 'dom7', 'dom7', 'dom7', 'dom7', 'dom7', 'dom7', 'dom7', 'dom7', 'dom7', 'dom7', 'dom7'], bars: [1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1], mode: 'major', songs: ['Sweet Home Chicago', 'Pride and Joy — Stevie Ray Vaughan', 'Johnny B. Goode — Chuck Berry'], tip: 'Bar 12 is the V7 launching the next chorus — never let it resolve flat. The form is a wheel, and bar 12 is where you push it.', }, { id: 'blues-quickchange', name: 'Quick-change 12-bar', rn: ['I7', 'IV7', 'I7', 'I7', 'IV7', 'IV7', 'I7', 'I7', 'V7', 'IV7', 'I7', 'V7'], degrees: [0, 5, 0, 0, 5, 5, 0, 0, 7, 5, 0, 7], qualities: ['dom7', 'dom7', 'dom7', 'dom7', 'dom7', 'dom7', 'dom7', 'dom7', 'dom7', 'dom7', 'dom7', 'dom7'], bars: [1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1], mode: 'major', songs: ['Dust My Broom — Elmore James', 'Hide Away — Freddie King', 'Crossroads — Cream'], tip: 'One bar of IV in bar 2, then home. Listen for it in the first seconds of a jam — guessing wrong here is the most common train wreck in blues.', }, { id: 'blues-8bar', name: '8-bar blues', rn: ['I7', 'V7', 'IV7', 'IV7', 'I7', 'V7', 'I7', 'V7'], degrees: [0, 7, 5, 5, 0, 7, 0, 7], qualities: ['dom7', 'dom7', 'dom7', 'dom7', 'dom7', 'dom7', 'dom7', 'dom7'], bars: [1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1], mode: 'major', songs: ['Key to the Highway — Big Bill Broonzy', 'It Hurts Me Too — Elmore James'], tip: 'The V arrives in bar 2 — much sooner than a 12-bar. Count the form out loud the first chorus; 8-bar tunes wrong-foot 12-bar reflexes.', }, { id: 'blues-minor', name: 'Minor blues', rn: ['i7', 'i7', 'i7', 'i7', 'iv7', 'iv7', 'i7', 'i7', '♭VI7', 'V7', 'i7', 'i7'], degrees: [0, 0, 0, 0, 5, 5, 0, 0, 8, 7, 0, 0], qualities: ['min7', 'min7', 'min7', 'min7', 'min7', 'min7', 'min7', 'min7', 'dom7', 'dom7', 'min7', 'min7'], bars: [1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1], mode: 'minor', songs: ['The Thrill Is Gone — B.B. King', 'As the Years Go Passing By — Albert King'], tip: 'Bars 9–10 are the whole drama: ♭VI sliding down a half-step to V7. (B.B.\'s recording makes the ♭VI a maj7 — try both colours.)', }, { id: 'blues-turnaround', name: 'Turnaround cycle (I–VI–ii–V)', rn: ['I7', 'VI7', 'ii7', 'V7'], degrees: [0, 9, 2, 7], qualities: ['dom7', 'dom7', 'min7', 'dom7'], bars: [1, 1, 1, 1], mode: 'major', songs: ['Call It Stormy Monday — T-Bone Walker (intro)', 'jazz-blues bars 11–12 everywhere'], tip: 'The jazz handshake inside the blues — often squeezed into two bars (two beats per chord). Loop it as a vamp and you\'ve learned bars 11–12 of every uptown blues.', }, ]