Transcript R&B - MFI

Rhythm and blues
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popular music genre combining
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jazz,
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gospel, and
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blues influences
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Lawrence Cohn
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Nothing but the Blues
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Robert Palmer
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Jump blues
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Jump blues
Artists:
Louis Jordan,
Big Joe Turner and
Wynonie Harris
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features
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vocalist
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horn-driven orchestra
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medium-sized combo
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Style
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driving rhythm,
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intensely shouted vocals, and
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honking tenor saxophone solos
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lyrics
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celebratory in nature
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full of braggadocio and
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swagger
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Jerry Wexler of
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Billboard
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the Billboard Hot 100
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Billboard 200
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African American music
black music, formerly known as
race music
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Louis Jordan
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Tymphany Five
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Lawrence Cohn
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Robert Palmer
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Shake, Rattle and Roll
Jesse Stone
Charles E. Calhoun
originally recorded by Big Joe Turner
most successfully by Bill Haley & His
Comets.
Twelve bar blues
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lyrics
I hate to see the evening sun go
down,
Yes, I hate to see that evening sun
go down
'Cause it makes me think I'm on my
last go 'round
Twelve bar blues
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chord structure
guitar and bass players: open chords,
chords with several open strings:
E-A-B7 or A-D-E7
Keyboardists
C-F-G7 or G-C-D7.
tonic, subdominant, and dominant
Twelve bar blues
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blues songs "St. Louis Blues", "Shake, Rattle
and Roll” "Hound Dog”
gospel songs, "I'm So Glad (Jesus Lifted Me)„
jazz classics like "Flying Home" and "Night
Train"
pop and rock songs, Glenn Miller's "In the
Mood", The Beatles' "Why Don't We Do It In
The Road?”
Twelve bar blues
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Many songs use a verse in the first four bars
and a chorus in the final eight bars:
That big eight-wheeler rollin' down the track
Means your true lovin' daddy ain't comin' back.
I'm movin' on, I'll soon be gone
You were flyin' too high for my little old sky
So I'm movin' on.
The blues chord progression
Different Notations
Chord
Tonic
Subdominant
Dominant
Alphabeti
c
T
Numerical Roman
Numeral
1
I
S
4
IV
S
4
V
The blues chord
progression
The first line takes 16 quarter notes
(4 bars × 4 beats), as do the remaining
two lines
(for a total of 48 beats and 12 bars).
 T/S/D
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1111 IIII
 SSTT
4 4 1 1 IV IV I I
 DSTT
5 4 1 1 V IV I I
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The blues chord
progression
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"Quick to Four" variation
T/S/D
TSTT
SSTT
DSTT
The blues chord
progression
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the tenth bar
10th bar stays in dominant
TTTT
SSTT
DDTT
The blues chord
progression
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Seventh chords
Using a seventh chord
TTTT7
SS7TT7
DSTD7
The blues chord
progression
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minor 12-bar blues
"Why Don't You Do Right?"
by Lil Green with Big Bill Broonzy and
then
Peggy Lee with the Benny Goodman
Orchestra.
music of Charles Brown
Major and minor mixed together
The blues chord
progression
From Bessie Smith's "Empty Bed Blues".
D
Woke up this morning with an
G
- - - D - - - D7 - - awful
aching head
G
Woke up this morning with an
G7 - - - D - - - D7 - - awful
aching head
A
A7
My new man had left me
G - G7 D - - - D - A A7
just a room and an empty bed.
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"Twelve-bar" oddities
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Chuck Berry's "Oh Carol" is a 24-bar blues
The Beatles's "Day Tripper" starts with
the first eight bars of the 12-bar progression.
Queen's song I Want To Break Free uses the
twelve-bar pattern for its verses, with a
different chord progression only for the
middle eight.