12 bar blues and slaves

1. 12 bar blues and slaves By Leya Banks 8y2

2. The Blues Artists There are lots of blues artists and these are some of them. The more common blues artist is Ben E. King. Most of blues artists came from Africa.

3. slaves • They were set free in 1865 • They also said they'd rather be slaves than set free because they would face poverty and die quicker than if they were on board and there would be more chances of them surviving on board to get to north America.

4. 12 Bar Blues • 12 bar blues is a chord pattern that changed all music. It's simple and very effective, it has inspired much of the music in the following 60 years. • It originated with African slaves who were shipped to north America. They were forced to work, so they sang the blues whilst they were working. • This was at the time marching bands began to mix their music, played sitting down in a concert hall. • Eventually racism decreased enough for black people to be allowed to play with white people in bands. These bands began to play what we know as jazz, which was very influenced by the blues.

5. Slaves With Music • Slaves were passionate about music and especially there own! • Music played an important part in the Africans life's. • They made there own instruments and played them they are the drums, shakers, tambourines, anklets, scrapers and fiddles. • They also made percussion instruments out for jawbones by scraping it with keys or metal.

6. Slave Trade Thousands of Africans went to America in the 18th century because they were taken as slaves; they didn’t have a choice. Some of them died and those who survived were sold in auctions and put to work in farms in the Southern estates. Life was terrible for the Africans because they where whipped and they used to do horrible stuff to them.

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