Blues & Jazz Flashcards
What arists or songs do you know about in this style of music?
What do you know about the origins of blues and jazz?
What do you know about some of the music genres related to this study?
What is a 12 bar blues?
Repeated pattern or chord progression that lasts for 12 bars.
Where did the blues originate?
Mississippi Delta/African Slaves/USA
What wind instrument that you blow into is associated with blues?
Harmonica often known as The French Harp
What did blues guitarists press down on the strings to get a slide sound?
Bottleneck, Steel Tube or Steel Bar
What human injustice ended to start migration and Chicago Blues?
Slavery
What is the main difference between the Country Blues and Chicago Blues sound?
Electric Instrumentation
Jazz originated in?
New Orleans, USA in the eary 20th century
Jazz is like recipe made up from a mixture of nationalities including?
African, American and European
Can you any Jazz Styles?
Swing, Big Band, Cool Jazz and Free Jazz
Can you name instruments that create textures in Jazz Music?
Drums, Double Bass, Piano, Guitar, Trombone, Trumpet, Saxophone, Claranet
Which instrument family is the Trombone from?
Brass
Which instrument family is the Saxophone from?
Woodwind
