Got a Match changes

16 bars · 2 changes per bar · Originally associated with the song Got a Match? · Often played in D

Usage

Summary

This 16-bar blues has a more harmonically active character than a basic form, with several early departures and a chain of II–V movements that give soloists plenty to outline. After moving quickly to V7/V in bar 2, it drops to the tonic minor in bar 3, then shifts to IV7 in bar 4 and stays on ivm7 in bar 5, offering a brief patch of space before returning to I7 in bar 6. The middle of the form continues to travel, moving through ivm7, ♭VII7, and then a series of two-chord bars in 9 and 10 that pass through II–V motion in increasingly remote areas. Bars 11–14 are especially colourful, touching on ♭IImaj7, a II–V back to tonic, and then a half-diminished to altered dominant setup before resolving again to i7 in bar 15. Overall, this progression feels relatively sophisticated without being inaccessible: rhythm players get a varied set of changes to shape, while improvisers can move between more open minor-held moments and passages where the harmony invites clearer line-by-line navigation.