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Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues. R&B or RnB. R&B or RnB. popular music genre combining jazz , gospel , and blues influences. R&B or RnB. Lawrence Cohn Nothing but the Blues Robert Palmer Jump blues. R&B or RnB. Jump blues Artists: Louis Jordan , Big Joe Turner and Wynonie Harris.

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Rhythm and blues

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  1. Rhythm and blues R&B or RnB

  2. R&B or RnB • popular musicgenre combining • jazz, • gospel, and • blues influences

  3. R&B or RnB • Lawrence Cohn • Nothing but the Blues • Robert Palmer • Jump blues

  4. R&B or RnB • Jump blues • Artists: • Louis Jordan, • Big Joe Turner and • Wynonie Harris

  5. R&B or RnB • features • vocalist • horn-driven orchestra • medium-sized combo

  6. R&B or RnB • Style • driving rhythm, • intensely shouted vocals, and • honking tenor saxophone solos

  7. R&B or RnB • lyrics • celebratory in nature • full of braggadocio and • swagger

  8. R&B or RnB • Jerry Wexler of • Billboard • the Billboard Hot 100 • Billboard 200

  9. R&B or RnB • African American music • black music, formerly known as • race music

  10. R&B or RnB • Louis Jordan • Tymphany Five • Lawrence Cohn • Robert Palmer

  11. R&B or RnB • Shake, Rattle and Roll • Jesse Stone • Charles E. Calhoun • originally recorded by Big Joe Turner • most successfully by Bill Haley & His Comets.

  12. Twelve bar blues • lyrics I hate to see the evening sun go down, Yes, I hate to see that evening sun godown 'Cause it makes me think I'm on my last go 'round

  13. Twelve bar blues • chord structure • guitar and bass players: open chords, chords with several open strings: • E-A-B7 or A-D-E7 • Keyboardists • C-F-G7 or G-C-D7. • tonic, subdominant, and dominant

  14. Twelve bar blues • blues songs "St. Louis Blues", "Shake, Rattle and Roll” "Hound Dog” • gospel songs, "I'm So Glad (Jesus Lifted Me)„ • jazz classics like "Flying Home" and "Night Train" • pop and rock songs, Glenn Miller's "In the Mood", The Beatles' "Why Don't We Do It In The Road?”

  15. Twelve bar blues • Many songs usea verse in the first four bars and a chorus in the final eight bars: That big eight-wheeler rollin' down the track Means your true lovin' daddy ain't comin' back. I'm movin' on, I'll soon be gone You were flyin' too high for my little old sky So I'm movin' on.

  16. The blues chord progression

  17. The blues chord progression • The first line takes 16 quarter notes (4 bars × 4 beats), as do the remainingtwo lines (for a total of 48 beats and 12 bars). • T/S/D • TTTT 1 1 1 1 I I I I • SSTT 4 4 1 1 IV IV I I • DSTT 5 4 1 1 V IV I I

  18. The blues chord progression • "Quick to Four" variation • T/S/D • TSTT • SSTT • DSTT

  19. The blues chord progression • the tenth bar • 10th bar stays in dominant • TTTT • SSTT • DDTT

  20. The blues chord progression • Seventh chords • Using a seventh chord • TTTT7 • SS7TT7 • DSTD7

  21. The blues chord progression • minor 12-bar blues • "Why Don't You Do Right?" • by Lil Green with Big Bill Broonzy and then • Peggy Lee with the Benny Goodman Orchestra. • music of Charles Brown • Major and minor mixed together

  22. The blues chord progression • From Bessie Smith's "Empty Bed Blues". D - - - Woke up this morning with an G - - - D - - - D7 - - - awful aching head G - - - Woke up this morning with an G7 - - - D - - - D7 - - - awful aching head A - - A7 My new man had left me G - - G7 D - - - D - A A7 just a room and an empty bed.

  23. "Twelve-bar" oddities • Chuck Berry's "Oh Carol" is a 24-bar blues • The Beatles's "Day Tripper"starts with the first eight bars of the 12-bar progression. • Queen's song I Want To Break Free uses the twelve-bar pattern for its verses, with a different chord progression only for the middle eight.

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