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Blues Quiz

Katie King 11 questions Updated 3 Feb 2018

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  1. 1Name some PRIMARY blues artists.
    1. AHowlin Wolf
    2. BBB King
    3. CMuddy Waters
    4. DBig Willie Johnson
    5. EEric Clapton
    6. FKanye West
    7. GBuddy Guy
    8. HRay Manzarek
    9. IJimi Hendrix
  2. 2Instruments used in blues?
    1. ABrass instruments
    2. BAcoustic Drum Kit
    3. CBass Guitar
    4. DElectric Guitar
    5. EStrings
    6. FPiano
    7. GKeyboard
    8. HDrum kit
  3. 3Instrumental Features:
    Bass guitar - [blank_start]clean[blank_end] setting, more [blank_start]simple[blank_end] than guitar, bassline ostinato
    [blank_start]Electric[blank_end] guitar - [blank_start]clean[blank_end] setting, usually main focus, bends, slides, vibrato, hammer ons and [blank_start]pull offs[blank_end] ([blank_start]lead[blank_end] guitar techniques) - introduction of the guitar as a [blank_start]lead[blank_end] instrument
    Drum Kit - snare, hi hat - plays [blank_start]swung[blank_end] rhythms, [blank_start]syncopation[blank_end] at times
    [blank_start]Raspy[blank_end] vocals - soulful delivery
    Strings - used as an additional [blank_start]rhythm[blank_end] instrument
    Piano - [blank_start]chordal[blank_end] with small flourishes usually
    Brass instruments - [blank_start]accompany[blank_end] and add colour to texture
    1. Aclean
    2. Bsimple
    3. CElectric
    4. Dclean
    5. Epull offs
    6. Flead
    7. Glead
    8. Hswung
    9. Isyncopation
    10. JRaspy
    11. Krhythm
    12. Lchordal
    13. Maccompany
  4. 4Origins:
    From [blank_start]America[blank_end]
    [blank_start]Black[blank_end] musicians predominantly to begin with
    Roots from [blank_start]African[blank_end] american [blank_start]slaves[blank_end] - moved to America, then developed to [blank_start]Chicago[blank_end], became popular
    Begun late [blank_start]18[blank_end] hundreds to early [blank_start]19[blank_end] hundreds
    Used to raise [blank_start]morale[blank_end] of slaves, ‘singing the blues’ negative connotations, work songs
    Shared by [blank_start]word of mouth[blank_end]
    Moved into cities - Chicago, [blank_start]New Orleans[blank_end] as quality of life developed
    Delta blues 1920s - [blank_start]earliest[blank_end] blues music (sub genre), blind Willie [blank_start]Johnson[blank_end], less instrumentation, crackle, [blank_start]no[blank_end] electric guitar, acoustic guitar (sometimes slide), not a whole band, no amplification, harmonica, innovative - emphasis on rawness, attitude and message, use of [blank_start]improvisation[blank_end] - innovation of guitar solo! Usually variation of singer’s melody line, [blank_start]bottleneck[blank_end] slide
    Chicago/[blank_start]Urban[blank_end] blues 1940s - more modern type (sub genre), more [blank_start]electrified[blank_end] instruments, electric guitar, harmonica, piano, [blank_start]upright[blank_end]/electric bass, drum kit
    1. AAmerica
    2. BBlack
    3. CAfrican
    4. Dslaves
    5. EChicago
    6. F18
    7. G19
    8. Hmorale
    9. Iword of mouth
    10. JNew Orleans
    11. Kearliest
    12. LJohnson
    13. Mno
    14. Nimprovisation
    15. Obottleneck
    16. PUrban
    17. Qelectrified
    18. Rupright
  5. 5Where did blues originate?
    1. AIn America when the Africans came to the cities. Roots in Africa, then developed in Chicago.
    2. BChicago only, brought over from African immigrants.
    3. CBegan in New Orleans in America when Africans immigrated.
  6. 6Musical Features:
    Melody - pitch bends, recurring [blank_start]motif[blank_end]s, bass riffs ([blank_start]ostinato[blank_end]), improvised guitar around the [blank_start]blues[blank_end] scale, vibrato on pitch bends, use of 2 string bends, innovation of [blank_start]LEAD GUITAR[blank_end] lines and the [blank_start]GUITAR SOLO[blank_end], improvisation (around key or chord pattern)
    Harmony - [blank_start]12[blank_end] bar blues structure use of chords I - V - IV ([blank_start]I/I/I/I/IV/IV/I/I/V/IV/I/V[blank_end]), use of turnaround, use of extended [blank_start]7th[blank_end] chords, flattened [blank_start]5th[blank_end], 7th, 3rd note - blues scale, chromaticism, [blank_start]pentatonic[blank_end] scale in places (no flattened 5th) use of 5th chords ([blank_start]power[blank_end] chords), [blank_start]minor[blank_end] key usually (minor pentatonic - take out 2nd and 6th) Blues scale - with flattened 5th, USE OF TENSION AND [blank_start]RELEASE[blank_end] - dissonance and [blank_start]resolution[blank_end], call and response ([blank_start]antiphony[blank_end]), [blank_start]walking[blank_end] bassline - doesn’t stop, walks around pentatonic
    Structure: [blank_start]AAB[blank_end] lyric structure (1st time, A repeat, B resolve)
    Rhythm - simple, crotchet and [blank_start]quaver[blank_end] usually, [blank_start]4[blank_end]/4, syncopated, accented in places, snare on [blank_start]back beats[blank_end], shuffle rhythms
    Texture - lead guitar, bass line, vocals, drum kit carries [blank_start]rhythm[blank_end], use of silence or [blank_start]single[blank_end] voice, sometimes guitar solo
    Tempo - Slow, steady, sometimes more upbeat
    1. Aostinato
    2. Bblues
    3. CLEAD GUITAR
    4. DGUITAR SOLO
    5. Emotif
    6. F12
    7. GI/I/I/I/IV/IV/I/I/V/IV/I/V
    8. H7th
    9. I5th
    10. Jpentatonic
    11. Kpower
    12. Lminor
    13. MRELEASE
    14. Nresolution
    15. Oantiphony
    16. Pwalking
    17. QAAB
    18. Rquaver
    19. S4
    20. Tback beats
    21. Urhythm
    22. Vsingle
  7. 7Blues music provided the primary roots for much of the popular music that developed over the twentieth century. Everything from its direct mode of personal [blank_start]expression[blank_end] to its musical components would provide the foundation for many future pop forms. Perhaps the most significant contribution, however, is the way in which innovative blues musicians adapted the [blank_start]guitar[blank_end] – hitherto largely a means of harmonic [blank_start]accompaniment[blank_end] – into a [blank_start]lead[blank_end] instrument capable of exceptional musical articulation. By “[blank_start]bending[blank_end]” strings and using [blank_start]“bottleneck[blank_end]” slides, the guitar was used to convey the individual pain and suffering of [blank_start]black[blank_end] Americans throughout in the poverty-stricken and racially divided [blank_start]southern[blank_end] states. When the electric guitar was marketed in the late 1940s and early 1950s, the sound of rural black America migrated from the [blank_start]south[blank_end] and into the great cities of the [blank_start]north[blank_end], captivating an enthusiastic urban audience along the way.
    1. Aexpression
    2. Bguitar
    3. Caccompaniment
    4. Dlead
    5. Ebending
    6. F“bottleneck
    7. Gblack
    8. Hsouthern
    9. Isouth
    10. Jnorth
  8. 8Origins:
    Amongst [blank_start]black[blank_end] citizens in the [blank_start]Southern[blank_end] US (newly liberated after [blank_start]Civil War[blank_end]) economic and [blank_start]social[blank_end] hardship spawned.
    Became popular in [blank_start]Delta[blank_end] Blues form through early recordings in [blank_start]southern[blank_end] states in 19[blank_start]20[blank_end] and 19[blank_start]30[blank_end]s.
    Developed into more elaborate style in urban [blank_start]northern[blank_end] cities ([blank_start]Chicago[blank_end] Blues) with [blank_start]electrification[blank_end] of instruments 1940 + 1950. (First electric guitar - [blank_start]1931[blank_end])
    1. A1931
    2. Bblack
    3. CSouthern
    4. Dsocial
    5. ECivil War
    6. FDelta
    7. Gsouthern
    8. H20
    9. I30
    10. Jnorthern
    11. KChicago
    12. Lelectrification
  9. 9Musical features:
    Standard [blank_start]I[blank_end],[blank_start]IV[blank_end],[blank_start]V[blank_end] 12 bar chord structure
    [blank_start]Three[blank_end] phrase lyrical structure
    Call and [blank_start]response[blank_end] vocal/instrument exchanges
    Prominent use of blue note (flat 3rd, [blank_start]5[blank_end]th, [blank_start]7[blank_end]th)
    Melodic [blank_start]improvisation[blank_end] and ornamentation in vocals and lead instruments
    Use of a walking bassline
    [blank_start]Lyrics[blank_end] expressing personal pain and misery
    1. AI
    2. BIV
    3. CV
    4. DThree
    5. Eresponse
    6. F5
    7. G7
    8. Himprovisation
    9. ILyrics
  10. 10Delta Blues Instrumentation:
    Acoustic/[blank_start]Electric[blank_end] Guitar
    [blank_start]Bottleneck[blank_end] slide
    Harmonica
    Improvised [blank_start]percussion[blank_end]
    1. AElectric
    2. BBottleneck
    3. Cpercussion

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A level Music Technology Quiz on Blues Quiz, created by Katie King on 19/01/2016.
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