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WorksheetsYear 8 Blues Music - key terms
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
In the 12 Bar Blues chord sequence, the pattern of chords when we start on C are:
C C C C
F F C C
Then...?
C F C C
E F C C
G F C C
G F G C
The Blues is a musical genre that originally developed in:
West Coast, United States
Deep South, United States
Mexico, Central America
Jamaica, Caribbean
African slaves and their descendants, working on plantations and chain gangs in the deep south, sung:
Work songs with a strong beat to help them work and keep their spirits up
Lullabies to help them sleep at night
Alphabet songs to help them learn to read
Blues music developed from work songs, keeping its strong beat and adding chords from the music slaves had learned in:
The churches introduced by their slave masters
Guitar lessons they had at school
Books about music
Chords are:
Rows of notes going up and down
A repeating idea in a blues, pop or rock song
Groups of 2 or more notes played together
Scales are:
Rows of notes going up and down
A repeating idea in a blues, pop or rock song
Groups of 2 or more notes played together
A riff is:
Rows of notes going up and down
A repeating idea in a blues, pop or rock song
Groups of 2 or more notes played together
To build a chord on the root note F, I use the pattern:
Play 1, miss 1, play 1, miss 1, play 1
Play 2. skip 1, play 1
Play 1, miss 2, play 1, miss 2, play 1
The type of blues played by a singer with their acoustic guitar is:
Country Blues
City Blues
Boogie Woogie
The bass line is the:
Accompaniment
Lowest part
Main melody / tune
To improvise in blues music we use the notes of the:
C major chord
C major scale
Blues Scale
Which of the following styles of music has been heavily influenced by the blues:
Jazz
Rock and Roll
R n B
Pop music
Hip Hop
Call and response is a technique taken from slave songs, and is:
The name given to a type of lyrics in blues music
How every blues song starts
Often used between instruments in blues music to organise the song
The bouncy, uneven rhythm in blues music is called:
Swing rhythm
Crooked rhythm
Tricky rhythm
The blues scale uses flats. A flat, for example Eb is:
A black note just to the left of the note name:
A black note just to the right of the note name
