EOY 8 (BLUES)

Question 1

What are the blues?

Answer 1

The blues are a type of music that started in the south of the USA during the late 19th and early 20th century.

Question 2

What is the minor pentatonic

Answer 2

a five-note minor scale using the degrees 1,3,4,5,7

Question 3

What is call and response

Answer 3

two phrases are presented and the second phrase responds to the first.

Question 4

What is improvising?

Answer 4

Improvising is when you make something up on the spot.

Question 5

What is the melody?

Answer 5

The tune

Question 6

What is harmony?

Answer 6

Harmony is the chords.

Question 7

Give an example of a Tonic chord

Answer 7

C major

Question 8

Give an example of a subdominant chord

Answer 8

chord IV (e.g. F major)

Question 9

Give an example of a dominant chord

Answer 9

chord V (e.g. G major)

Question 10

What are thee twelve bar blues ?

Answer 10

a chord sequence often used in Classic Blues

1111
4411
5411

Question 11

What are swung quavers?

Answer 11

unequal length quavers where the first is long and the second is short

Question 12

What is Syncopation?

Answer 12

when the rhythm mostly falls on the off-beat.

Question 13

What is the head structure?

Answer 13

A song structure commonly used in the Blues which is similar to ternary form
A
B
A

Question 14

What is a walking bass

Answer 14

A bass line that moves swiftly from one note to the next.

Question 15

List some blues instruments

Answer 15

Bass guitar
Piano
Guitar
Double bass
Vocals
Drum kit
Saxophone
Trumpet