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WorksheetsBlues music.
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
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
