The song is an example of simple verse form based on the eight-bar blues progression.

Befitting its title, the song is based on one of the most popular structures in rock and roll, the twelve-bar blues progression (in A).

He spoke handsomely while tickling blues progressions, as if reading from a script.

Try recording a blues progression and use the blues scale for improvising.

An example is provided by the following guitar tablature for the first four bars of a blues progression in E:

From below there suddenly came a familiar chop, a swift running down the frets to a not-quite-standard blues progression that made Larry's coffee cup pause.

The ever present 8- and 12-bar blues progressions became as natural and as ubiquitous as breathing patterns.

The blues progression, in C is as follows:

Most of the song follows the traditional 12 bar blues progression in E major.

The first movement, moderato assai (always moderate), contains a typical twelve-bar blues progression.