# The 12-bar blues as you’ve never heard them before
If there’s one thing we like to do, it’s take stuff that’s been done a million times before and put our own unique spin on it. But how do you do something different with the blues, which by definition are made up of a fixed chord sequence?
Ladies and gentlemen, The Home Guard play the 12-bar blues in 5/4:
Despite the headline, we don’t actually believe for a second that we’re the first people ever to play the blues in a funny time signature (five beats in the bar in this case), but it’s not particularly common. Anyone reading this care to enlighten us of any famous examples?
Anyway, this minute-long demo is the latest snippet of an idea from our third album. We doubt it will form a whole song in its own right; more likely, it will make for a nice middle eight or solo interlude in a longer piece. Here are the other work-in-progress demos previously uploaded:
Not much to go on so far, but we have begun mixing and matching our various riffs, beats and snippets into more complete songs. Stay tuned for more, but it’s still early days for this album.