Rhythm and blues

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popular music genre combining jazz, gospel, and

blues influences

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Lawrence Cohn

Nothing but the Blues

Robert Palmer

Jump blues

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Jump blues Artists: Louis Jordan, Big Joe Turner and Wynonie Harris

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features

vocalist

horn-driven orchestra

medium-sized combo

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Style driving rhythm, intensely shouted vocals, and honking tenor saxophone solos

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lyrics

celebratory in nature

full of braggadocio and

swagger

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Jerry Wexler of

Billboard

the Billboard Hot 100

Billboard 200

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African American music

black music, formerly known as race music

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Louis Jordan

Tymphany Five

Lawrence Cohn

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

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

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

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

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 Alphabetic

Numerical

RomanNumeral

Tonic T 1 I

Sub-dominant

S 4 IV

Dominant

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 TTTT 1 1 1 1 I I I I SSTT 4 4 1 1 IV IV I I DSTT 5 4 1 1 V IV I I

The blues chord progression

"Quick to Four" variation T/S/D TSTT SSTT DSTT

The blues chord progression

the tenth bar 10th bar stays in dominant TTTT SSTT DDTT

The blues chord progression

Seventh chords Using a seventh chord TTTT7 SS7TT7 DSTD7

The blues chord progression 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 headA - - A7My new man had left me G - - G7 D - - - D - A A7just a room and an empty bed.

"Twelve-bar" oddities 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.