Blues
This aspect of blues songs usually has three lines at a time, in an AAB pattern.
What is blues lyrics?
A mix of marching band, ragtime, and blues, this early jazz style comes from the deep south.
What is Dixieland Jazz?
The Banjo, quite popular in country and bluegrass, descends from traditional instruments of this geographical area.
What is Africa/ West Africa?
This musician, known for his white suits, did not invent Rock and Roll, but is one of the most well-known Rock and Roll.
Who is Elvis?
Though it has changed over time, Pop music is not just the most popular music of its day, but ________________.
What is a distinct genre?
Blues music is a descendant of music from these two continents.
This jazz subgenre was the most popular music in the USA in the 1930s and 40s.
What is Big Band Swing?
This type of electric guitar, popular in Country music, is also known as "the frying pan."
What is the Hawaiian/slide guitar?
This musician, who also wrote country songs, is arguably the first to write a Rock and Roll tune with his hit, "Maybellene."
Who is Chuck Barry?
This American boy band were big on pop scene in the 1960s, swaying in time with their guitars while they performed.
Who are the Beach Boys?
The most common instrument in Blues besides the human voice is this.
What is guitar?
This type of Jazz, a faster, more improvisatory style of jazz, was a reaction against Big Band Swing, which some jazzers thought was too scripted and didn't give enough room for intellect and creativity.
What is Bebop?
Country music was originally called this, because it was the music of people in rural Appalachia.
What is Hillbilly music?
As Rock and Roll fans got older, the genre started to change tone and this offshoot became known as ______.
What is Rock?
This type of instrument became widely used in the 1980s, greatly increasing the variety of sounds at a keyboardist's disposal.
What is the synthesizer?
This is the name for the chord patterns most common in blues music.
What is 12-bar blues?
This jazz trumpeter and singer is known for "What a Wonderful World," among other many other songs.
Who is Louis Armstrong?
As country music was developing, it earned this second name in the 1930s because the music was used in cowboy movies.
What is Country and Western?
These instruments, early versions of which are the Frying Pan and the Telecaster, are a staple in Rock music.
What are electric guitars?
Grunge, Ska, Punk, Reggae, R&B, and Gangsta Rap all made their influence on the Pop music of this decade.
What is the 1990s?
Complete the twelve-bar blues pattern
I IV I I
IV IV I I
_ _ I I
What is V VI
This instrument, invented in the 1840s, is quite popular in jazz, but rarely appears in classical, rock, or country music.
What is the saxophone?
This country music star even has an amusement park named after her.
Who is Dolly Parton?
Rock is know for intense sounds including drums and electric guitar. As technology developed, rock guitarists changed the sound of their instruments with this device.
This pop star now holds the record for the most music awards and the highest grossing music film, passing Michael Jackson.
Who is Taylor Swift