How can you keep going in a long improvisation?

Music

Where musicians would get together and spontaneously play music; more of a social gathering.

They would make up tunes and lyrics on the spot.

They would only play songs they already knew.

In the early blues of the 1900's, musicians did not have printed scores, how did they play together?

The notes are the same as the blues head melody.

The notes were clear, you can hear phrases in swung rhythm and there are repeated musical ideas.

The notes were too long, they rhythms are slow and a lot of the pitches are the same.

Which of these descriptions talks about a successful improvisation?

Blues improvisations only include quaver notes.

Blues music has a swing feel, which you can hear in the drum shuffle.

Blues music has changed and moved from straight to swung rhythms.

Why does a good blues improvisation use swung rhythms?

If you are playing a 12 bar blues in G, what would the I, IV, and V chords be?

If we transpose the 12 bar blues structure to F, what three pitches would we play?

Where a band repeats the same chord over again.

Where the band plays a chord in a different key.

Where the last chord in the structure is chord (V) instead of chord (I).

What is a 'turn around' chord in the blues structure?

A walking bass line is the notes of the chords 'broken' into an ascending and descending pattern.

A walking bass line is the notes of the chords played an octave apart.

A walking bass line is the notes of the chords played together at the same time.

How is a walking bass line created from chords?

What types of instruments were used in early blues music?

A main melody or theme that will repeat throughout a blues song.

Which pitches are heard in the G major blues scale?