From the course: Beginning Blues Keyboard
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Call and response
From the course: Beginning Blues Keyboard
Call and response
- Okay, besides using notes from the blues scale there's something that the two examples I have played here had in common that made them sound like blues melodies. It's call and response. The African vocal tradition of call and response is an important aspect of blues playing. An idea is presented, repeated back to the caller, and then finally answered with a new idea. The way this plays out in 12 bar blues form is that an idea is stated in the first four bars. (blues piano music) Then repeated in the next four bars. (blues piano music) Then it's answered with a new idea in the final four bars. (blues piano music)
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