rhythm and blues
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Rhythm and blues. R&B or RnB. R&B or RnB. popular music genre combining jazz , gospel , and blues influences. R&B or RnB. Lawrence Cohn Nothing but the Blues Robert Palmer Jump blues. R&B or RnB. Jump blues Artists: Louis Jordan , Big Joe Turner and Wynonie Harris. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
R&B or RnB
Shake, Rattle and Roll Jesse Stone Charles E. Calhoun originally recorded by Big Joe Turner most successfully by
Bill Haley & His Comets.
Twelve bar blues
lyrics
I hate to see the evening sun go down,
Yes, I hate to see that evening sun go down
'Cause it makes me think I'm on my last go 'round
Twelve bar blues
chord structure guitar and bass players: open
chords, chords with several open strings:
E-A-B7 or A-D-E7 Keyboardists C-F-G7 or G-C-D7. tonic, subdominant, and dominant
Twelve bar blues
blues songs "St. Louis Blues", "Shake, Rattle and Roll” "Hound Dog”
gospel songs, "I'm So Glad (Jesus Lifted Me)„
jazz classics like "Flying Home" and "Night Train"
pop and rock songs, Glenn Miller's "In the Mood", The Beatles' "Why Don't We Do It In The Road?”
Twelve bar blues
Many songs use a verse in the first four bars and a chorus in the final eight bars:
That big eight-wheeler rollin' down the track Means your true lovin' daddy ain't comin'
back. I'm movin' on, I'll soon be gone You were flyin' too high for my little old sky So I'm movin' on.
The blues chord progression
Different Notations
Chord Alphabetic
Numerical
RomanNumeral
Tonic T 1 I
Sub-dominant
S 4 IV
Dominant
S 4 V
The blues chord progression The first line takes 16 quarter notes (4 bars × 4 beats), as do the
remaining two lines (for a total of 48 beats and 12 bars). T/S/D TTTT 1 1 1 1 I I I I SSTT 4 4 1 1 IV IV I I DSTT 5 4 1 1 V IV I I
The blues chord progression minor 12-bar blues "Why Don't You Do Right?" by Lil Green with Big Bill Broonzy
and then Peggy Lee with the
Benny Goodman Orchestra. music of Charles Brown Major and minor mixed together
The blues chord progression From Bessie Smith's "Empty Bed Blues". D - - - Woke up this morning with an G - - - D - - - D7 - - - awful aching head G - - - Woke up this morning with an G7 - - - D - - - D7 - - -awful aching headA - - A7My new man had left me G - - G7 D - - - D - A A7just a room and an empty bed.