Music

• Minor blues scale format

  1 – 3 flat – 4 – 5 flat – 5 – 7 flat
• Blues musical features


  • Improvisation
  • Call and response
  • Syncopation
  • Walking bass line
  • Melisma
• Blues band instruments


  • Guitar
  • Electric guitar
  • Drums
  • Double bass (pizzicato)
  • Piano
  • Saxophone
  • Brass instruments
• Pizzicato


  An Italian term meaning plucked, referring in music to string instruments
• Melismatic


  To sing multiple notes on the same syllable
• Syllabic


  To sing one note for each syllable
• Classic chord progression for pop songs

  I - V - vi - IV
• Anacrusis


  The same as an upbeat
• Vocal warmups


  • Prevent straining vocal chords
  • Warm up diaphragm, important for breath control and reaching high notes
• Ground bass


  A bass line that is repeated throughout the piece, often an 8-bar phrase
• Monophonic


  Using only one line of music
• Homophonic


  All parts have the same melody
• Polyphonic


  Two or more melodies in harmony
• Conjunct


  Melody moves in steps
• Disjunct


  Melody moves in leaps