Blues

Blues is a music style that originated approximately between 1860 and 1900 and finds its origin in the music that slaves (from Africa -born blacks in the South of theUnited States -among other things in the Mississippi delta, between Memphis and New Orleans)-made. The main musical sources that have contributed to the emergence of the blues are the sacred songs (gospels, negrospirituals), the worksongs and the field hollers. A typical variant of the blues is the cajun music. Making music with each other or alone, with or without instruments, was often the only way for them to express their suffering and soften. Because this music had a melancholytone and content, she was called ' blues '.

Sometimes used the singers ' bad words ' that the guards did not know. They spoke, for example, that ' rake ' in their song as ' zot ' meant. So they could hassle without the guards noticed. They made themselves instruments and in the evening they sang at the top of their lungs about the misery they had.

The designation ' blue ' for mourning is taken from the sailing shipping. If a ship during the trip his captain or another officer lost, it effected for the rest of the trip was ablue flag and a blue band painted around the whole ship before home to within to run.

When many blacks around the first world war from the South to the cities in the North (including Chicago and Detroit), the blues pulled a more ' urban ' sound, that would be from the 1930s characterized primarily by the use of electrically amplified instruments. These more upbeat variant of the blues would later pave the way for rhythm and blues and rock and roll. The latter would penetrate into the background somewhat, but the blues in the 60s and 70s the genre lived on as British (white) rock musicians such as Eric Clapton, The Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin play blues went again.

All styles of jazz are strongly influenced by the blues, by New Orleans Jazz to cool jazz.



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[hide] *1 musical characteristics  ==Musical characteristics[ Edit] == The characteristic of blues is that it follows a fixed schedule of 12 sizes per stanza are repeated (called twelve bar blues). Each stanza, i.e. a composite set of lines of verse, than three Sung all-weather rules that are tied to four sizes accompanied by chords.
 * 1.1 Melody
 * 1.2 Theme
 * 1.3 Styles
 * 1.4 Instruments
 * 2 Musicians
 * 3 external links

Almost every blues song is recognizable to that chord progression from which it is constructed. This blues schedule consists mostly of 12 four-four beats, the last of which size/sizes the so-called 'turnaround' is: The Roman numerals, the steps of the scale for. In C is the schedule: Other music genres, such as rock and roll, jazz, and in some cases also are on a more complicated version of this simplified schedule based respectively. Schedules with other numbers also come for sizes, for example schemes with 16 sizes. ===Melody[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Very characteristic of the blues is the guitar. Vocals is interspersed with instrumental improvisation, often in the pentatonic scales's derivative blues scales. There are 2 blues scales: minor (I-bIII-bVII-IV-bV-V) and major (I-II-bIII-III-V-VI). The minor scale is most commonly used. It is possible to combine these two scales (I-II-III-IV-bIII-bV-V-VI-VII) but this is going more towards jazz.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Very important in the blues scales are the so-called blue notes. There are 3 blue notes in the blues scales: at minor bIII, bV and bVII. The use of these nuts in a pentatonic scale is what is not common in European music. At blues are these nuts often achieved with instruments that show can ' bend ', such as guitar, blues harp and saxophone. Show on instruments to which it is not possible to bend (such as keyboards), one can achieve a similar effect by means of a battle; for example by briefly bIII for III to play.

<p lang="en" len="439" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">A harmonious contrast is often used: the minor in the guitar or singing about a major chord progression.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Blues Music often has a some raw, dark vocals, rooted in black gospel. The vocal line is characterized by repetition and a question-and-answer dialogue between the singer and the musicians. ===Theme<span class="mw-editsection" len="321" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The blues tells about everyday life. The emphasis is on negative events, for example accident in love. By singing the blues hopes one consolation for these problems, in addition to the power to get on the road to. A blues musician shying away from controversial topics such as alcohol, sex and not violence. Though they are often sung about in hidden terms, often coming from African American traditions, such as the voodoo. ===Styles<span class="mw-editsection" len="319" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Any blues musician does have its own typical style characteristics. However, we can in the blues among other groups recognize the following style:

<p len="17" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;"> ===Instruments<span class="mw-editsection" len="324" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The blues was originally played on acoustic instruments like guitar, saxophone, piano and harmonica. In addition, the guitarist made use of a sometimes smooth and hard object such as a knife or a bottle neck (hence the name ' bottleneck ', English for ' bottleneck '), with which he slipped over the strings (hence the name ' slide ', English for ' sliding ').
 * African blues
 * Atlanta blues
 * Chicago blues
 * Delta blues
 * Detroit blues
 * East Coast blues
 * Kansas City blues
 * Louisiana blues
 * Memphis blues
 * New Orleans blues
 * Piedmont blues
 * Swamp blues
 * Texas blues
 * West Coast blues
 * St. Louis blues

<p lang="en" len="45" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Typical blues instruments include:

==Musicians<span class="mw-editsection" len="322" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p lang="en" len="218" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">See also: category: Blues singer
 * double bass / bass guitar
 * guitar (acoustic, archtop, steel string, electric)
 * blues harp harmonica or
 * piano


 * Blind Lemon Jefferson (1897 - 1930)
 * Lonnie Brooks (1933)
 * Bo Diddley (1928 - 2008)
 * Ray Charles (1930-2004)
 * Big Bill Broonzy (1893 - 1958)
 * Eric Clapton (1945)
 * Peter Green (1946)
 * Paul Ambach (1948)
 * Albert Collins (1932 - 1993)
 * Buddy Guy (1936)
 * Rory Gallagher (1948 - 1995)
 * John Mayall (1933)
 * Little Walter (1930 - 1968)
 * J.B. Lenoir (1929 - 1967)
 * Jim Morrison (1943 - 1971)
 * Keith Richards (1943)
 * Chuck Berry (1926)
 * Skip James (1902 - 1969)
 * Robben Ford (1951)
 * Johnny Winter (1944)
 * W.C. Handy (1873 - 1958)
 * Jimi Hendrix (1942 - 1970)
 * Earl Hooker (1929 - 1970)
 * John Lee Hooker (1917 - 2001)
 * Lester Butler (1959 - 1998)
 * Mississippi John Hurt (1892-1966)
 * Janblues (1975-2012)
 * Elmore James (1918 - 1963)
 * Harry Muskee (1941 - 2011)
 * Robert Johnson (1911 - 1938)
 * Robert Cray (1953)
 * B.B. King (1925)
 * Albert King (1923 - 1992)
 * Herman Brood (1946 - 2001)
 * Freddie King (1934 - 1976)
 * Louisiana Red (1932)
 * Leadbelly (1885 - 1949)
 * Jack White (1975)
 * Charley Patton (1891 - 1934)
 * Mick Taylor (1949)
 * Walter Trout (1951)
 * Eelco Gelling (1946)
 * Stevie Ray Vaughan (1954 - 1990)
 * Muddy Waters (1915 - 1983)
 * Howlin' Wolf (1910 - 1976)
 * Jimmy Page (1944 - )
 * Son House (1902 - 1988)
 * Gary Moore (1952 - 2011)
 * Joe Bonamassa (1977 - )
 * John Mayer (1977 - )
 * Jimmy Lafave (1979 - )