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The Blues
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The Blues
A Voice for Social Change
Social Issues
African American Music
-Discusses loss, heartache
and the poverty of slaves
descendants.
-Civil Rights Movement.
-Woman treated harshly.
-Broken Homes prevalent.
Where Did Blues Music Come From?
Who’s The King of The Blues?
• The competition is stiff
with artists like Muddy
Waters, BB King, John
Lee Hooker, Howlin
Wolf, Robert Johnson,
Eric Clapton and Stevie
Ray Vaughn topping the
list.
• B. B. King - The Thrill Is
Gone (Live at Montreux
1993) – YouTube
Instruments in a Blues Band.
Instruments include piano, saxophone,
trumpet, drums, guitar and bass. Other
instruments may also be used.
Musical Structure
• Usually played in an
8,12or 16 bar chord
progression.
• Uses Flattened 3rd,5th and
7th of the associated
major scale, called a blue
or bent note.
• Uses a walking or
shuffling bass.
• Here are a few examples
of this.
John Lee Hooker - Boogie
Chillen (Best of GuitarTube.com) – YouTube
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Little
Wing - YouTube
THE END!
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