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21 wrz 2014 · The sound of the blues is heard throughout the world, both directly and via its many stylistic descendants: jazz, R&B, country, rock, funk, hip-hop, and so on. Given its ubiquity, it is surprising how rarely the blues is addressed in formal music theory pedagogy.
In this sense, the word has been associated with mournful, heartrending songs in many languages and styles: flamenco is often described as Spanish Gypsy blues, rembetika as Greek blues, morna as Cape Verdean blues, tango as Argentine blues, enka as Japanese blues.
Understanding the basics of these rhythms, how the most common blues rhythms are constructed and the rhythm used in the blues shuffle will help to set you on your way to become a killer blues rhythm guitarist.
9 paź 2024 · Blues, secular folk music created by African Americans in the early 20th century, originally in the South. The simple but expressive forms of the blues became by the 1960s one of the most important influences on the development of popular music. Learn more about blues, including notable musicians.
‘The language and poetry of the blues’ explores the lyrical component of the blues. Modern scholars treat the blues primarily as a musical style, but early scholars also studied blues songs as a form of folk poetry, arising from the common language of African Americans.
6 lip 2014 · In part 1 of this mini-series exploring the Blues from a music theory perspective, Lynda Arnold explores its foundation and looks at harmonic and melodic variations of the 12-bar blues form.
The main features of blues include: specific chord progressions, a walking bass, call and response, dissonant harmonies, syncopation, melisma and flattened ‘blue’ notes. Blues is known for being microtonal, using pitches between the semitones defined by a piano keyboard.
