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Originally Posted by tiberius  [pedant]
Well I think RichieBee's hypothesis that the time signature of a bar changes the number of bars is nonsense.
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It's called 12 bar blues because the chord progression contains 12 bars.
6/8 does not equal 4/4. Even though mathematically you might say that 6/8 is equivalent to 3/4 (remember math?), it's actually equivalent to 2/4 because of the triplet pulse - the subdivision of beats. That's the whole point behind not using a time signature of 4/4 here.
So, with the subdivision of beats meaning there are two quarter note beats in a bar of 6/8 and four quarter note beats in a bar of 4/4, you'd need twice as many bars of 6/8 to give you the same length as 4/4. Or you could use a time signature of 12/8 instead of 6/8. That's actually more likely.
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[apologies]
The rest of my post was a bit weird. Didn't mean to offend anyone - I just thought it was a little odd how the OP mentioned the whole house burning down thing. Of course, I hope everyone got out okay (including pets) and that insurance covers his costs.
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