Noun
- A feeling of sadness or depression. Generally used with the.
- 1883: Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
- : If we had been allowed to sit idle we should all have fallen into the blues...
- One's particular life experience, particularly including the hardships one has faced.
- : Your blues is just like mine.
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...Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre created within the African-American communities in the Deep South of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballad. The blues form which is ubiquitous in jazz, rhythm and blues and rock and roll is characterized by the use of specific chord progressions — the twelve-bar blues chord progressions being the most frequently encountered — and the blue note that for expressive purposes are sung or played flattened or gradually bent in relation to the pitch of the major scale. Read full entry
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Blues.....?
What is Blues?Can somebody
tell me that and tell me some
blues music please!!
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Only the best type of music that ANY modern rock has originated from... Blues is about tradition and personal expression. At its core, the blues has remained the same since its inception. Most blues feature simple, usually three-chord, progressions and have simple structures that are open to endless improvisations, both lyrical and musical. The blues grew out of African spirituals and worksongs. In the late 1800s, southern African-Americans passed the songs down orally, and they collided with American folk and country from the Appalachians. New hybrids appeared by each region, but all of the recorded blues from the early 1900s are distinguished by simple, rural acoustic guitars and pianos. After World War II, the blues began to fragment, with some musicians holding on to acoustic traditions and others taking it to jazzier territory. However, most bluesmen followed Muddy Waters' lead and played the blues on electric instruments. From that point on, the blues continued to develop in new directions -- particularly on electric instruments -- or it has been preserved as an acoustic tradition. |
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What causes some blue eyes to My eyes are rimmed in navy
blue and often have a mixture
of light and dark blues veins
running towards my pupil. I
have friends whos eyes look
flat blue though with no depth
or difference of color. WHy is
this?
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You have more melanin in your eyes. I have gray eyes, so I have less melanin than people with true blue eyes. |
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What's the difference between Politically, blues reacts in
the same manner as folk in the
sense that it tends to
represent the economic and
social frustrations of the
lower-class. In my opinion,
blues is more representative
of the working-class and
destitute in contrast to
mostly conformist melodies of
jazz. Now that we know the
differences in a political
sense, I want to know how jazz
differs from the blues as
according to music theory.
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I wouldn't call Jazz melodies 'conformist' in the political in any way. In fact, the birth of the jazz age was heralded with as much "what's wrong with these kids today" sort of attitude as the birth of Rock and Roll. Now, from a theory standpoint, the two are sometimes difficult to seperate as they are not mutually exclusive. Both are commonly played in swing time, both make extensive use of polytonality, and both often share forms. Early jazz is based on vi ii V I progressions but usually with a lot of secondary dominants making it more like V/ii V/V V I. Early blues does this also, but more commonly as part of a 12-bar form. While we are on the subject, 12 bar form is the staple for blues, but NOT the only form by far! In fact, early blues was a lot more open than modern blues and you would see 12-bar 8-bar, 16-bar, formless progressions, and many other ideas. Some regidly with domintant 7th chords throughout, some with substitutions and secondary dominants. Also interesting to note that the 12 bar form is common in jazz as well. One of the major differeneces is that even though they are both played in swing time (similar to 12/8 as an expression of unequal 8ths in 4/4) blues falls more on the down beat and jazz not so much. Melodically, jazz improvisation tries to steer away from the tonic and even away from triad chord tones where blues tends to use the tonic and 'blue' notes. There are so many details that it is difficult to express them all. The really short answer is that blues comes from the heart and jazz from the head. |
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