... music shares many technical aspects. Most rock music is based on the same harmonies as Western music, especially the tonic, subdominant, and dominant chords. The series of chords known as the 12-bar blues is based on these three chords and has figured prominently in certain styles, especially Rock & Roll, Soul Music, and Southern Rock. Other common harmonic devices include the use of ... a drone, and the parallel movement of chords, originating from a technique on the electric guitar known as bar-chording. Many elements of African American music have been a continuing source of influenc...

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... followed it. Developed in the rural South, the first form of blues, called 12 bar blues, uses the African derived scale and sliding pitches combined with traditional European meter and chords as its framework. Also, divided into three sets of four bars, 12-bar-blues uses a variation of call and response in which the first two lines vocally are identical, and ... , using the same instrument both for solo and ensemble in the same piece with great fluidity. Finally, Ellington added complexity to the use of harmony by expanding the breadth of chords, and adding more dissonance. This type of ...

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... on 20th century American popular music. ...a song-form with an AAB rhyming scheme in three four-bar segments--each one part vocal, part instrumental response--using a I-IV-V chord progression, including chords with flatted "blue" notes, usually thirds and sevenths. ...a musical state of mind. All true, none of them true enough. The origins of the blues precede recorded music, and even after ... Blake, who virtually alone among rural bluesmen ventured into jazz-rooted compositions. Texas bluesmen also experimented with more complicated guitar parts, often tending to arpeggiate (pick the ...

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... such as "why you sweatin' me" and "don't stop for hoes." Howlin Wolf used slang phrases like "I eats mo' chicken." Both songs have guitar chords in their production as well. Tupac and Howlin' Wolf both discussed social issues pertaining to the black community in their songs. Their lyrics described situations that were common in African ... ...

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... was part of blues movement. While Charlie Parker, John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, and Miles Davis were changing the emotion and styling of jazz with jolting rhythmic shifts, eccentric chords, and quick harmonic explorations, a definitive change in American jazz music was taking form. Jazz and Blues instruments came about after traditional African instruments were not allowed by the American slave ... ...

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... band is usually Black Sabbath, which was led by lead singer Ozzy Osbourne. Heavy metal consisted of an extreme distortion in the sound of the guitar, with un-harmonized power chords and loud flashy solos. Heavy Metal was a tough form of music to accept open and widely in our society even though rock was firmly established in the United States in ... ...

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