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	The Blues . Blues Classroom . 12-Bar Blues \| PBS
		Nearly all blues music is played to a 4/4 time signature, which means that there are four beats in every measure or bar and each quarter note is equal to one beat.
		The I chord dominates the first four bars; the IV chord typically appears in the second four bars (although in the example below, Elmore James introduces it in the first four bars); and the V chord is played in the third four bars.
		In a 12-bar blues, the first and second lines are repeated, and the third line is a response to them—often with a twist.
	www.pbs.org /theblues/classroom/essays12bar.html (321 words)

	Blues - FreeEncyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Early forms of the blues evolved in the Southern United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, using simple instruments such as acoustic guitar, piano, and harmonica.
		Melodically, blues music is marked by the use of the flattened third and dominant seventh (so called blue notes) of the associated major scale.
		What is now recognizable as the standard 12 bar blues form with A A1 B form is documented from oral history and sheet music as appearing in African-American communities throughout the region along the lower Mississippi River in the decade before 1910 (and performed by white bands in New Orleans at least since 1908).
	openproxy.ath.cx /bl/Blues.html (629 words)

	Eight bar blues - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		An eight bar blues is a typical blues chord progression, taking eight 4/4 bars to the verse.
		T T S7 S7 When the last bar contains the dominant, that bar can be called a turnaround.
		Finally, here is an example showing the pattern in the key of D, and how it fits with the lyrics of a given verse.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eight_bar_blues (266 words)

	TBH, A Brief History
		Alan Lomax states that the blues tradition was considered to be a masculine discipline (although some of the first blues songs heard by whites were sung by 'lady' blues singers like Mamie Smith and Bessie Smith) and not many fl women were to be found singing the blues in the juke-joints.
		Blues lyrics are often intensely personal, frequently contain sexual references and often deal with the pain of betrayal, desertion, and unrequited love (Kamien 519) or with unhappy situations such as being jobless, hungry, broke, away from home, lonely, or downhearted because of an unfaithful lover.
		Therefore, these purists maintain that many melodies with the word "blues" in the title, and which are often spoken of as being the blues, are not the blues because their melodies lack this particular basic blues harmonic construction.
	www.thebluehighway.com /history.html (2139 words)

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		Learn these blues chord changes to play in any blues band - the 12 bar blues, 'quick' change, turnarounds, 8 bar blues, minor blues, bridge and rhythm patterns.
		The name 12 Bar Blues comes from the number of measures or bars in most blues songs - twelve.
		Blues musicians often refer to chord changes by Roman numerals after the steps of the scale.
	www.geocities.com /vural_yav/muzik/gitar_dersleri_ingilizce/blues_chord.htm (368 words)

	Twelve Bar Blues Patterns
		Blues music is made up of a relatively limited set of rhythm and lead techniques/patterns.
		The twelve bar blues format is the most common pattern in blues, and learning to play it in a variety of ways is the basis of learning to play blues rhythm guitar.
		Many blues guitarists learn these examples, and then spend the rest of their musical lives experimenting with the scale patterns and copying others to learn how to create music with these shapes.
	guitarz.org /FreeOnlineTextLessons/IntermediateSkills/TwelveBarBluesPatterns.html (2976 words)

	African American Review: The Blues Aesthetic in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye
		The blues lyrics that punctuate the narrative at critical points suggest a system of folk knowledge and values that is crucial to a young fl woman's survival in the 1930s and '40s and which supports Claudia's cathartic role as storyteller.
		I posit Claudia as the narrative's blues subject, its bluest "I" and representative blues figure, and Pecola as the abject tabula rasa on which the community's blues are inscribed.
		The blues to which Claudia refers exemplify the cultural knowledge and values transmitted orally to Claudia that ease and assist her transition into womanhood--folk wisdom that is not conveyed to Pecola.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2838/is_4_33/ai_59024884 (1233 words)

	8 BAR BLUES IN A
		Eight bar blues is a variation of 12 bar blues.
		A bar is a measure of music that in most cases has four beats.
		Sometimes there is not a chord change for two bars (eight beats).
	www.joetheguitarman.com /8_bar_blues_in_a.htm (128 words)

	On "The Weary Blues"
		It combines traditional blues stanzas that emphasize the roots of African-American experience, touches of vaudeville blues as the roots were being "refined," pride in African-American creativity and forms of expression, and a sense of the weariness that ties together generations of African-Americans.
		The blues singer in the poem transcends "his rickety stool," which seems to represent his life condition and not just the appurtenances of the joint: "He played that sad raggy tune like a musical fool." We can reasonably infer that nothing in his life conveys the concentration and depth of his music.
		What the blues articulates is the simultaneous presence of the "tragic and comic aspects of the human conditions." Thus, the blues in the poem is not the conventional "either/or" condition configured within the Cartesian construct.
	www.english.uiuc.edu /maps/poets/g_l/hughes/weary.htm (2006 words)

	Group of Eight (Australian universities)
		The Group of Eight (Go8) is a lobby group for the tertiary institutions generally considered to be the most prestigious and research-intensive universities in Australia.
		Operating informally as a network of vice-chancellors since 1994 and formally incorporated in 1999, it is an attempted equivalent to the American Ivy League.
		All members of the group, barring UNSW and Monash are called sandstone universities (Australian universities established before 1950), and all of their primary campuses are based within an Australian capital city.
	www.kiwipedia.com /group-of-eight--australian-universities-.html (138 words)

	Twelve bar blues
		Twelve bar blues is a typical blues chord progression, taking twelve 4/4 bars to the verse.
		A basic example of the progression would look like this, using T to indicate the tonic, S for the subdominant, and D for the dominant, and representing one chord per measure:
		While the blues is most often considered to be in sectional strophic form with a verse-refrain pattern, it may also be considered as an extension of the variational chaconne procedure.
	pedia.newsfilter.co.uk /wikipedia/t/tw/twelve_bar_blues.html (279 words)

	Dummies::It's Not a Club Circuit: Examining 12-Bar Blues
		A bar is a musical phrase, a way of measuring the music against its rhythm, and blues songs are structured in a 12-bar format.
		A standard blues progression generally consists of three chords that are usually, but not always, played in a major and rather than a minor key.
		The first four bars of a verse are extended to eight bars, and "breaks" or "stop time" figures are inserted to chop up the verse line.
	www.dummies.com /WileyCDA/DummiesArticle/id-1129,subcat-ARTS.html (640 words)

	Welcome to Mel Bay's Guitar Sessions® Web Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Often, when guitarists think of the blues and blues players, the first thing that comes to mind is lead guitar.
		The second pattern is for the second bar each time a chord repeats for two bars (bars 4 and 8).
		Additionally, we'll add a "turnaround", which is a group of chords in the last two bars of a blues that increases interest in the movement to the V (B7) chord and leads the ear back to the I chord at the beginning of the progression.
	www.guitarsessions.com /nov04/rockblues.html (1419 words)

	Eight bar blues: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Eight bar blues
		Eight bar blues: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Eight bar blues
		A typical blues chord progression, taking eight 4/4 bars to the verse.
		When the last bar contains the dominant, that bar can be called a turnaround.
	www.encyclopedian.com /ei/Eight-bar-blues.html (351 words)

	Blues
		In Blues Rock Guitar Soloing, Mat demonstrates the art of phrasing which is the key to all improvised music as heard in the music of Santana, Clapton and SRV.
		Hans' passion for the blues is clear as he teaches the tunings, chord shapes, slide work and other essential techniques which give the blues its distinctive sound.
		Chord progressions, turnarounds, walking basses, picking techniques, blues riffs and several complete songs and instrumentals are taught, along with the elements of blues improvisation.
	www.easymusicbooks.com /en-us/dept_292.html (3557 words)

	The Blues - A History
		Melodically, blues music is marked by the use of the lowered third/fifth and dominant seventh (so-called blue notes) of the associated major scale.
		However in the blues, one might play the diminished fifth (Gb) or fl note between F and G. Whether the chord being played behind it was a C,C7, Cmin, Cmin7, or even a Cdim.
		However, in the blues the flat Seventh is often used with the tonic (I chord), subdominant (IV), as well as the dominant (V chord).
	arapaho.nsuok.edu /~kracht/BluesCourse/blues1.html (610 words)

	St. Paddys Blues & Brews Fest
		Now in its seventh year, the St. Paddy's Blues and Brews Irish Fest takes place in downtown Portland at 65 SW Yamhill and is a fundraiser for Special Olympics Oregon.
		As in the past, the street is closed, a large heated musical tent is erected, and presto, you have a funky, rockin' BLOCK PARTY, filled with food, beverage and blues.
		In bands at an early age, he was exposed to a wealth of musical styles, most notably the Blues, which became his passion.
	www.cascadeblues.org /Specials/2004-03/0403-stpats_bluesbrews.htm (424 words)

	Blues Style Piano and Boogie Woogie
		You'll learn the 12 bar blues form, the blues scale, and the blues rhythm.
		Special sections on 12-bar-blues variations, minor blues, eight bar blues, seven improvising techniques for instant results.
		The material in this course is used for the NSAM Blues Piano Workshop taught in major university extension programs throughout the country.All levels.
	www.playpianonow.com /pianoblues.html (204 words)

	Blues guitar videos from GuitarGalleryMusic.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Blues Master I is an intimate documentation of King's style and technique.
		Learn: The shuffle rhythm and variations, The blues scale in popular positions, classic rhythm parts: 9th chords, phrasing (pull-offs and hammer-ons, bends and slides), how to build a 12 bar blues solo and more.
		Classic blues chord voicings, blues progression variations, chord substitution, straight eight and shuffle patterns, several complete 12 bar blues progressions.
	www.guitargallerymusic.com /ebluesgv.htm (2664 words)

	The Blues: Black Once
		The deceptively simple structure of the blues was most likely born of the shouts and hollers of Southern fls at work in the fields that were the heart of Dixie's economy until we figured out how to make stock car racing really pay off.
		The blues as a set form are widely considered to have been born from the pen of composer W.C. Handy.
		Roundheaded bastard's like a broken record on the subject), and while the blues are indeed a primary influence on jazz, it was the popularity of jazz that ultimately enabled blues recordings and led to the inextricable place of both blues and jazz into the lexicon of American popular music.
	www.allaboutjazz.com /php/article.php?id=1986 (1476 words)

	BluesHarp.org --Blues Style
		Sporting Life Blues by Brownie McGee 8 bar blues I/I7/IV/IV7 min/I/V7/I/I. The last 2 chords should really be a turnaround G G7 C C# dim/G G Eb D7.This progression is killer for the harp.
		The first 4 bars (after the intro) are standard blues (with the shuffle intact) but after that you witness the genious of Lennon molding the 12 bar into something else...
		The blues scale can be viewed as a major scale with three notes added to it, The flatted 3rd, flatted 5th, and flatted 7th.
	www.bluesharp.org /jamstyle.html (4981 words)

	Eight Bar Blues Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Eight Bar Blues Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography
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		Although some seem to disagree these days, the Blues is still generally regarded as fundamental to an understanding of Jazz performance.
		This set of presentations is based on methods Paul Combs has developed for teaching improvisation in general, and the Blues in particular, to private students.
		Introduces the concepts behind Introduction To the Blues and explores ways in which they can be used, in an on-going way, in the band room to develop improvising, arranging and composing skills.
	home.comcast.net /~pcomb/bluescln.html (225 words)

	Calendar Lore - 2nd Quarter 1998
		Smith undoubtedly learned the blues, which performers such as W. Handy and Ma Rainey were beginning to popularize, during the century's second decade, and she may have made her first test recording as early as 1921.
		Her style of the blues, most often sung by a woman, featured a straightforward eight-bar blues format--usually consisting of four or five stanzas united by a clearly developed theme or image.
		For example, by the mid-1920s country singers from the Anglo-American tradition were singing blues, which they may have learned from oral tradition or from the classic women blues singers whose records dominated the market during the decade.
	www.deltaboogie.com /calendarlore/2nd1998.htm (3002 words)

	Blues Chord Changes, Sweet Home Chicago, Stormy Monday, Blues Guitar, Rock Guitar
		A minor 12 bar blues usually has a repeated rhythm pattern and no chord in the 12 measure.
		Blues chords ususally change on the 1st beat of a measure
		Blues- the rhythm guitar usually plays two notes together.
	www.bluesforpeace.com /blueschords.htm (595 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Basic Blues Guitar: Essential Progressions, Patterns & Styles at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Basic Blues Guitar by Steve Travato is designed to teach the aspiring Blues guitarist nine of the most popular rhythm styles in the Blues genre.
		The Blues Progressions - In Blues like in popular music in general, this is commonly the I - IV - V progression but in dominant seventh chords voicings which differs a little from major scale harmony.
		Your awareness of the Blues influence will be elevated and Blues may have an influence on what you're currently working with.
	www.epinions.com /content_152929078916 (675 words)

	Bradley Charles Smith - Reviews
		The Suite ends with a dirty blues, which gains momentum during several swinging choruses of innovative improvising on a 12 bar sequence and a final recapitulation of the tone row.
		At the ninth bar there is a tempo change into a four-note block chord section made up of a ten bar and a six bar phrase which ends on a held tremolo chord.
		Lastly there is a seven bar variation of the theme ending with a series of six two bar phrases built on the "E" seventh/augmented ninth chord.
	www.nouveaubanjo.com /reviews.html (2079 words)

	CD Baby: ROXY PERRY: Roxy Perry NY BLUES QUEEN
		At an early age she studied the music of classic Blues and Jazz artists who collectively influenced what became Roxy's original vocal style and harp playing.
		Roxy has refined her big-city brand of Blues to guarantee total abandon, and with NY BLUES QUEEN, she takes the party from the city to the nation.
		Her instincts are dead-on; she caresses introspective numbers like ''Woo-ooh'' and blows the lid off rockers like the explosive ''The Blues Don't Knock.
	www.cdbaby.com /roxy (946 words)

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