Bruce (also translated as Bruce and Bruce) is a kind of vocal music and instrumental music based on pentatonic scale, and its other feature is its special harmony. Bruce originated from hymns, hymns, labor songs, shouts and carols of black slaves in the United States in the past. The "Voice of Blues" used in Blues and Qi Ying's singing style show its origin in West Africa. Bruce has a great influence on American and western pop music. Ragtime music, jazz, big bands, rhythm and blues, rock music, country music and ordinary pop songs, and even modern classical music all contain blues elements or are developed from blues. [1] This word is often used to describe melancholy in poetry.
Blues (English: blue, blue) has the same meaning as "blue devil", which means low-key, sad and melancholy. As early as 1798, George Coleman wrote a farce called "Blue Devil, a farce". In the19th century, this word was used to mean tremor, delirium and police. The application of this word in African-American music may be older. 19 12 Memphis william christopher handy's Memphis Blues is the earliest written record of this word in music.
When it comes to modern music, you can't help but talk about Bruce. It is a musical style created by black people living in the lower class of America. It originated in the Mississippi River Delta in the early 20th century. In the early days, it was a hymn of people's labor. Later, it gradually influenced the development track of world pop music. Are you familiar with words like rock music and rhythm and blues now? The blues scale used in these two kinds of music is something you can't learn in the school music class, but walking down the street every day, the sound from the video store has already made it deep into your heart. ...
In the 1920s, Bruce catered to some people with his unique lyrics, harmonious rhythm and melancholy melody, and gradually rose. Blues music contains a lot of poetic language, repeated over and over again, and then ends with a decisive line. Melody is based on chords, with I, IV and V as the main chords and 12 as the mode. In the melody, the third, fifth and seventh notes on the main theme are lowered by a semitone, which makes people feel bittersweet and sad.
Although the lead singer is the key in blues music, the improvisation of guitar-based instruments is also very wonderful. Musicians can transcend the boundaries of chords and play at will. In addition to the melancholy melody, it also includes the scraping sound of the knife and the use of the slider, as well as the humming sound imitating the lead singer. Eric clapton is a successful musician and songwriter in the process of popularizing blues music. If you haven't heard of it, start feeling it now!
Today, blues music has been incorporated into mainstream music, and many of its elements have been more applied to rock music and pop music. However, traditional blues music still has great power. Musicians in this field include B.B. King, john lee hooker, Etta Baker, junior Wells and Buddy Guy.