Blues music.

What is a walking bass line?

• A repetitive melody played on a bass instrument created using the notes of a chord on each beat of the bar.

• A melody made up on the spot based on the notes of the blues scale?

• A group of notes played at the same time?

What is a Blues Scale?

• A melody line played on a bass instrument based on the notes of the chord?

• A group of 6 notes that can be used to improvise a melody.

• A group of notes played at the same time.

What instrument would you hear playing a walking bass line?

• Saxophone

• Violin

• Double Bass

• Bass Drum

What musical technique can you hear?

• Call and response

• Verse and chorus

• Blues scale

• swing rhythm.

What style of song can you hear?

• Country Blues

• Memphis Blues

• Work Song

• Country Song

Why is 1865 important in the history of Blues music?

• African people were taken as slaves and they started to sing work songs?

• African/American slaves were free and they could develop their style?

• African/American slaves were told to work out in the cotton fields and started to use call and response?

What is the name of the popular musical structure used in Blues music?

• Walking bass Line

• Improvisation

• 12 Bar Blues

• Chords.

What style of song is this?

• Country Blues

• Work Song

• Boogie Woogie

• Memphis Blues

What is improvisation?

• A bass line?

• A melody you improvise using the Blues scale?

• A chord pattern?

• A melody written on paper?

What style of music is this?

• Work Song

• Boogie Woogie

• Country Blues

• Memphis Blues