Jazz & Blues Flashcards
What is a walking bass line
A walking bass line is typically heard in many different types of Jazz music.
A walking bass line walks up and down the double bass or electric bass.
(A low pitched pattern, following a blues scale, played on a double bass or electric bass)
What is a boogie-woogie
Boogie-woogie is a style of blues piano playing that became popular in the 1940’s, it is characterised by a regular bass riff while the right hand uses trills and melodic decoration.
What instruments are used in big band jazz?
Big band brass, saxophone, trumpets, clarinets, drums, bass, sometimes vocals will be added.
12 bar blues:
What are the 12 bar blues?
It is a 12 bar pattern using primary chords
the music repeats the same chord pattern every 12 bars
What type of instrument do the twelve bar blues often use?
Often uses distorted electric guitar
What features are repeated often in the twelve bar blues?
features repeated guitar riffs
What other thing does the twelve bar blues normally have?
Often has a guitar solo section
Call and response:
What is call and response and when was it brought around?
It was brought around in the early blues when slaves hit the pick axes in time, these songs often featured call and response where one person would sing a line and everyone else would answer.
G— G— G— G—
C— C— G— G—
D— C— G— D—
What are these chords known as?
These Chords are known as the Primary Chords of the key of G major and they make up a 12 bar blues sequence. These are the chords you used in your GarageBand task.
Cotton slave triangle:
How long did the voyage across the Atlantic known as the middle passage take
Generally took 6-8 weeks
Cotton slave triangle
When they got to America what happened to those Africans who survived
they were off loaded for sale and put to work as slaves
Cotton slave triangle
Traders set out from…………..ports towards…………coast. There they bought………in exchange for…..and loaded them into the…….
European Africa's west People Goods Ships
Cotton slave triangle:
The ships then returned to………with…….such as sugar,………,tobacco,…..and later…….which had been produced by…………………………….
Europe Goods Coffee Rice Cotton Slave labour
What other familiar techniques are used in big band jazz
Soloists take turns to show off often using improvisation
Syncopated swing rhythms
repeated chordal pattern
‘Jazz stabs’ - mainly homophonic textures.
What is piano ragtime
Piano Ragtime is a type of early Jazz piano
