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THE BLUES

THE BLUES. This is where is all started. The Blues: Musical Elements. This 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

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  1. THE BLUES This is where is all started.

  2. The Blues: Musical Elements • This 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.

  3. The Blues: Musical Elements • The 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.

  4. The Blues: Musical Elements • Blues 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 III / 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.

  5. The Styles of Blues Music

  6. The Blues: Styles • Down home (Country Blues) • Boogie Woogie and Barrelhouse (Piano)   • Classic Blues • Chicago (Urban) Blues • Modern Blues

  7. 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=FHlM2Qr9TZQ Big Mama Thornton http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZRaK0j8DMs

  8. More blues legends! • Big Bill Broonzy • Ruth Brown • Ray Charles • The Chess brothers (Leonard and Marshall) • Willie Dixon • Muddy Waters • W.C.Handy • Howlin’ Wolf • Son House • Leadbelly • Little Richard

  9. And more! • B.B.King • TajMahal • Bonnie Raitt • Gertrude “Ma” Rainey • The Rolling Stones • Koko Taylor • Sister Rosetta Tharpe • Big Mama Thornton (the first Hound Dog) • And more. http://www.pbs.org/theblues/songsartists/songsbioalpha.html

  10. A brilliant documentary • A documentary about Robert Johnson: Can You Hear the Wind Howl? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRKXRdWAeW4

  11. How about a guitar lesson? • Delta Blues Guitar Lesson - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc-J_Ew8Jw0

  12. Question: • So, why are the blues so popular in the United States and even in other English-speaking countries?

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