... 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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... white American complacency could not hold back the vitality of Black R&B music, so a whole new sound emerged - Rock and Roll. Rock and Roll was identified by it's pulsating drums, repetetive chords, stepped up tempos and very loud guitars. Rock and Roll became the new fad, and was very well liked by teens in the fifties. it gave them a reason to dance ... crude. Garage bands were usually young and amateur, and never really quite lived up to their inspirations. A lot of the bands actually emphasized their amateurishness, by slamming the same three chords over and over while at the same t...

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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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