Blues Names
Father of the Blues
Who is W.C. Handy?
Home town of W.C. Handy's band.
What is Memphis?
A pitch slightly above or below the standard notes in a scale
What is a blue note?
Short series of notes, like words, used to build a solo.
What is a lick?
The "Father of the Blues" had these
What is "St. Louis Blues?"
This culture in this time period created the style known as "the blues."
African Americans in the early 1900's
Empress of the Blues
Who is Bessie Smith?
The Empress's city of birth.
What is Chattanooga?
"Standard" number of bars with a blues chord progression
What is a 12-Bar blues?
Pushing on the string for a slightly higher pitch
What is bending?
"Gee, but it's hard to love someone, When that someone don't love you, I'm so disgusted, heartbroken tooI've got those..."
What is "Down Hearted Blues?"
Blind Lemon Jefferson
King of the Blues
Who is B.B. King?
Memphis street with blues clubs and history.
What is Beale Street?
A scale with five notes
What is a pentatonic scale?
DAILY DOUBLE: Two notes played together on adjacent strings
What is a double-stop?
Instrumental blues guitar track named after rumors and gossip
What is "Scuttle Buttin'?"
These were early recordings of African American music, primarily jazz and blues, marketed to African American audiences.
Race Records
For a time, wanted to be known as "Sting Ray."
Who is Stevie Ray Vaughan?
The King's birth state.
What is Mississippi?
A statement, followed with a vocal or instrumental reply
What is call and response?
Fast variation in pitch on a single note
What is vibrato?
The King sang about this leaving because his baby did him wrong
One of the "fathers" of the Delta Blues, famous for his early blues recordings.
Gibson guitar played by the King.
What is Lucille?
SRV sang about a flood there.
What is Texas?
Basic form of blues lyrics
What is AAB?
Steel tube/bar, glass bottle neck, Coricidin bottle
What is a slide?
SRV said all the telephone lines were down because of this.
What is "Texas Flood?"
Spontaneous music making.
Improvisation