Early Blues
- Created by: Anniexox215
- Created on: 24-01-17 16:47
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- Early Blues
- Context
- Deep south of US
- Protest
- Despait
- Hope
- African American Slaves
- Slaves work songs
- Call and Response Style
- Blue Notes
- pentatonic melodies of Africa with 7 note melodies of western hymn tunes
- "Wailing" Element
- Religious Lyrics
- Isrealites journey under Moses - Egypt to promised land
- Instrumentation
- half broken guitars - few strings
- tapping feet on ground = Bass drum
- old bottlenecks = plectrum
- slides and scoops
- Structure
- Lyrics
- first line was repeated and third line answered first two lines
- 12 bar blues
- Lyrics
- Three chord trick
- Context
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