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THE BLUESThis is where is all started.
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The Blues: Musical ElementsThis music has a direct connection to the African-American traumas of slavery and post slavery.
The purpose of the blues as music is to provide solace, comfort, and entertainment, if not joy.
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The Blues: Musical ElementsThe blue note is played or sung at a
slightly lower than normal scale and slides up and down along a tiny continuum of pitches.
Blues lyrics range from elaborately prepared narratives to discontinuous improvised couplets drawn from a common pool of formulaic lines.
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The Blues: Musical ElementsBlues poetic form: aab - Line b
rhymes with line a and resolves with a humorous or ironic twist.
The 12-bar-blues progression consists of 3 4-bar phrases: I I I I / IV IV I I / V V I I and can be drawn out. This contrast with the symmetrically phrased 8-, 16-, or 32-bar forms of much popular music.
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The Styles of Blues Music
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The Blues: Styles
Down home (Country Blues)Boogie Woogie and Barrelhouse (Piano)
Classic BluesChicago (Urban) BluesModern Blues
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We need to who sang the blues.Bessie Smith (The Empress of the Blues) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Who6fTHJ34 Big Joe Turner - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20Feq_Nt3nM Eric Clapton and Buddy Guy - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTVUvHiuaGw Robert Johnson (Father of the Blues) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8hqGu-leFc
Joe “Pine Top” Perkins http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHlM2Qr9TZQBig Mama Thorntonhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZRaK0j8DMs
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More blues legends!Big Bill BroonzyRuth BrownRay CharlesThe Chess brothers (Leonard and Marshall)Willie DixonMuddy WatersW.C.HandyHowlin’ WolfSon HouseLeadbellyLittle Richard
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And more!B.B.KingTaj MahalBonnie RaittGertrude “Ma” RaineyThe Rolling StonesKoko TaylorSister Rosetta TharpeBig Mama Thornton (the first Hound Dog)And more.
http://www.pbs.org/theblues/songsartists/songsbioalpha.html
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A brilliant documentaryA documentary about Robert Johnson: Can
You Hear the Wind Howl? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRKXRdWAeW4
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How about a guitar lesson?
Delta Blues Guitar Lesson - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc-J_Ew8Jw0
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Question:So, why are the blues so popular in the United States and even in other English-speaking countries?