12 bar blues - jazz and blues

Question 1

What is a walker my bass line?

Answer 1

A walking bass line walks up and down the double bass or electric bass.

Question 2

What is a boogie-woogie?

Answer 2

Boogie-woogie is a style of blues piano playing that became very popular in the 1940’s, it is characterised by a regular bass riff while the right hand uses trills and melodic decoration.

Question 3

What was the cotton slave triangle?

Answer 3

Traders set out from European ports towards Africa’s west coast. There they bought people in exchange for goods and loaded them into the ships.
The voyage across the Atlantic, known as the Middle Passage, generally took 6 to 8 weeks. Once in the Americas those Africans who had survived the journey were off-loaded for sale and put to work as slaves.
The ships then returned to Europe with goods such as sugar, coffee, tobacco, rice and later cotton, which had been produced by slave labour.

Question 4

What are the 3 points of the cotton slave triangle?

Answer 4

1. from the end of the 1600s, traders travelled from Europe to west Africa to buy salves in exchange for goods.
2. the slave route from west Africa to America.
3. the ships returned to Europe with goods such as sugar, coffee, tobacco, rice and later cotton, which had been produced by slave labour.

Question 5

Cotton slave triangle
Europe
West Africa
America

Answer 5

North America: Europe:
Slaves sold. Goods received.

                                                                   West Africa:
                                                              Stages captured.