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African Instruments
The Blues
Instrument Classification
African Music
Miscellaneous
100
An African drum low in pitch and played with sticks like a bass drum.
What is a djun-djun?
100
1A 2A 1B
What is the blues lyric format?
100
Air + Sound =
What is an aerophone?
100
The transatlantic slave route from Africa to the Americas.
What is the Middle Passage?
100
This note gets 2 beats.
What is a half note?
200
A thumb piano.
What is an mbira?
200
The title of a song about a flood in Mississippi in 1927.
What is "Backwater Blues"?
200
String + Sound =
What is a chordophone?
200
Another name for jeli or storyteller.
What is a griot?
200
I am the third note of the C scale.
What is E?
300
The lead talking hand drum.
What is the djembe?
300
Guitarist and songwriter for "Crossroad Blues".
Who is Robert Johnson?
300
A tambourine is this kind of instrument.
What is a membranophone?
300
Multiple rhythms played at the same time.
What are polyrhythms?
300
Rhythm and Poetry
What is RAP?
400
A 51-stringed African harp.
What is the kora?
400
A very popular African American female blues singer in the 1920s.
Who is Bessie Smith?
400
A piano is this type of instrument.
What is an idiophone?
400
When I say "ooh", you say "aah". Ooh! Aah! Ooh! Aah!
What is call and response?
400
This note gets 4 beats.
What is a whole note?
500
An aerophone that can be played with two voices.
What is a Fulani flute?
500
A nickname for blues music by those who considered it beneath their spirituality.
What is "the devil's music"?
500
Shekere and mbira are this type of instrument.
What is an idiophone?
500
Field _______
What are hollers?
500
Ms. Johnson's favorite singer.
Who is John Mayer?