About Blues
The Blues, which incidentally also the root of the Jazzs is also like this a mixture of African (slaves) and European (immigrants) elements. He is a secular equivalent of the spiritual content of the Spiritual whose life and work life to the theme. A typical example is the Field Holler in the long understanding shouts of workers in the fields (Fields) determine the melody. The blues is usually a soloist in a reputation - Answer scheme put forward, although occasionally the answer is chorisch.
The call is not infrequently a simple observation. Blue texts are mostly off the cuff invented. For very old blues switch question and answer and move regularly, called as sung, in the 8-bar blues harmony within a single (co multiple sound tones to a chord and the connection among the chords). Later developed depending on the number of bars also still a 12er, 16er and 20er Blues where there is some asymmetrical shapes added. Melodic is the blues by blue notes on the low 3rd, 5th and 7 Stage of major scale marked, often like an wavering between major and minor perceived to be. It explains the blue notes from melodic idiosyncrasies of African music, in which the major-minor difference does not exist. The blue notes require a special type of tone, the ambesten with instruments to realize is that in their ways of sound the expression of a singing voice come close. An example is the saxophone, with its ability to merge two tones are perfectly suited sanding. Since blue notes in its pitch is not strictly defined, they are also often seen as dirty notes (sounds dirty) means, but for the true blues feeling of decisive importance enter. On the piano, for example, tries to this effect by nearly simultaneous games of adjacent keys to reach. The blues is not always sad and slow to be the best proof of boogie-woogie, the barrel-house piano style descendant of the late 19th or the beginning of the 20th Century in the pubs of black Americans was at home. With these he has in common is that the piano as a rhythm instrument will be treated. Characteristic of the boogie-woogie is the leadership of the bass, as the walking bass in quarter notes played. Later only in the 50s and 60s created the urban, stressed rhythmic style of the Blue Rythm’n'Blues. Another musical direction, which has roots in blues and the beginnings of this can hardly be distinguished, is the jazz.
