Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
Term 2 2015 By
Darcie James
The Music
The Blues is not only all about the lyrics but about the structure/form and
instruments that are being played. The most common instruments involved in
typical blues music were the piano, bass guitar, acoustic guitar, double bass,
harmonica, saxophone, drums, trumpet and more. Vocals were very important
in the sense that they were what the artist is feeling and a way of expressing
what they were feeling was by putting instruments to the the words and
creating music.
The structure and form of a typical blues song is called a 12 Bar Blues. Many
artists have used this in many popular and famous blues songs. It also used as
a main part in a Boogie Woogie genre song. The Keys are as follows: C C C C , F
F C C, G G C C. Those chords in that order are the most common style but there
are many variations including key change and beat and melody change. You can
play the blues in any key and any progression as long as there is some
repetitiveness.
The Lyrics were always about sad depressing and blue times in ones life.
Hence the name THE BLUES. A typical lyrical piece of a blues song is from B B
King and Eric Claptons Three O'clock Blues.
Now here it is three o' clock in the mornin, and I can't even close my eyes.
It's three o' clock in the mornin', baby I can't even close my eyes. Well, you
know I can't find my baby I can't be satisfied. Well, now looked around me,
and my baby, she can't be found. I've looked around me, people, my baby,
she can't be found. Well, you know that if I don't find my baby, people, I'm
goin' down under the golden ground.
Repetition occurs in this extract and for the rest of the song. You may think that
the artists didnt have any other lyrics but it was just the way the blues was and
still is. Although these days repetition is used in Pop Songs partly because we
are lazy and we dont know what else to say.
THE AFRICANS
WERE KIDNAPPED
FROM THEIR
ENVIRONMENT AND
TAKEN TO AMERICA
FOR SLAVERY
WORK. THE SLAVES
WERENT CHOSEN
INDIVIDUALLY IT
WAS A TOTAL
RANDOM GROUP OF
PEOPLE. MOTHERS
WERE SEPERATED
FROM DAUGHTERS
FATHERS FROM
SONS.
ALTOGETHER THESE 4 FACTORS (SLAVERY, WORK SONGS, RURAL LIFE AND CHURCH) ALL WORKED
TOGETHER. EVEN THOUGH EACH ARE TOTALLY DIFFERENT ALL FACTORS ARE IMPORTANT WHEN
TALKING THE HISTORY OF THE BLUES AND HOW BAD THE LIFE WAS AND HOW THEIR LIVES CREATED
OUR RELIEVERS.
Irish
Italian
Bibliography
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blues
http://musicians.allaboutjazz.com
http://www.internationalbluesmusicday.com/blueshistory.html
http://songwriting.songstuff.com/article/aab-songform/
http://encyclopedia.kids.net.au/page/bl/
Blues_music
https://classroom.google.com/c/Mjg1MTY1MDFa