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Blues Music

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    • Blues Music Facts

      Blues music originated in the United States. There is very little documentation about the exact beginnings of blues, although anecdotal evidence places its beginnings in the late nineteenth to early twentieth centuries. Blues has had a tremendous influence on the music of the United States. more »

    • Information on Blues Music

      Blues music is an American musical genre defined by the presence of a 12-bar chord progression and the use of "blues notes" (notes lower than the major scale). The blues has its origins in the music of the American South in the early 20th century. Since then, it has evolved into several distinct forms and been incorporated into other... more »

    • Where Did Rhythm and Blues Music Originate?

      Rhythm and blues music, or R&B, is a uniquely American sound, and although it began as a style performed and listened to mainly by African Americans, it has grown to become one of the most beloved types of music in the world. more »

    • How to Play Blues Music

      The blues is a musical form based on the blues scale. Hart Wand's "Dallas Blues" was the first blues song ever published as sheet music, in 1912, but the blues was a popular musical form before then. Though there are many variations of the blues, the basic 12-bar blues always has been, and still is today, one of the most widely used... more »

    • Rhythm & Blues Music Information

      The Rhythm & Blues, or R&B for short, genre is a result of a great deal of musical evolution, and has a fascinating origin. R&B is an American musical form that continues to influence modern musicians. more »

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    Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre created within the African-American communities in the Deep South of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads."The Evolution of Differing Blues Styles"> The blues form which is ubiquitous in jazz, rhythm and blues and rock and roll is characterized by the use of specific chord progressions — the twelve-bar blues chord progressions being the most frequently encountered — and the blue note that for expressive purposes are sung or played flattened or gradually bent in relation to the pitch of the major scale.

    The blues genre is based on the blues form but possesses other characteristics such as specific lyrics, bass lines and instruments. Blues can be subdivided in several subgenres ranging from country to urban blues that were more or less popular during different periods of the 20th century. Best known are the Delta, Piedmont, Jump and Chicago blues styles. World War II marked the transition from acoustic to electric blues and the progressive opening of blues music to a wider audience. In the 1960s and 1970s, a hybrid form called blues rock evolved.

    The term "the blues" refers to the "the blue devils" read more at » http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blues

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