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    The blues originated in the late 19th century among African Americans in the Deep South of the United States, fusing traditional African music with European folk styles. It influenced many other genres like jazz and rock. The blues evolved from early vocal styles into a variety of modern subgenres like electric blues. The name "blues" comes from the idea of melancholy, and lyrics often describe sadness. The signature blues sound uses a 12-bar structure and chord progression over a 4/4 beat. Reggae originated in Jamaica in the 1960s and has influenced American music. It is characterized by offbeat rhythms and staccato chords, and emphasizes the second and fourth beats in 4/4 time through bass lines and melo

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    The blues originated in the late 19th century among African Americans in the Deep South of the United States, fusing traditional African music with European folk styles. It influenced many other genres like jazz and rock. The blues evolved from early vocal styles into a variety of modern subgenres like electric blues. The name "blues" comes from the idea of melancholy, and lyrics often describe sadness. The signature blues sound uses a 12-bar structure and chord progression over a 4/4 beat. Reggae originated in Jamaica in the 1960s and has influenced American music. It is characterized by offbeat rhythms and staccato chords, and emphasizes the second and fourth beats in 4/4 time through bass lines and melo

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    The blues originated in the late 19th century among African Americans in the Deep South of the United States, fusing traditional African music with European folk styles. It influenced many other genres like jazz and rock. The blues evolved from early vocal styles into a variety of modern subgenres like electric blues. The name "blues" comes from the idea of melancholy, and lyrics often describe sadness. The signature blues sound uses a 12-bar structure and chord progression over a 4/4 beat. Reggae originated in Jamaica in the 1960s and has influenced American music. It is characterized by offbeat rhythms and staccato chords, and emphasizes the second and fourth beats in 4/4 time through bass lines and melo

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    Blues

    The blues originated from the African-Americans in the


    Deep South in North America around the end of the
    19th century. The genre is a fusion of traditional African
    music and European folk music, spirituals, work
    songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed
    simple narrative ballads. The blues has influenced
    many other genres like jazz and rock. The first
    publication of blues sheet music was in 1908 and since
    then has evolved from vocal music sang by slaves into
    a wide variety of styles and subgenres. Blues subgenres
    include country blues, acoustic blues which evolved
    into electric blues during the 1940s and rock blues
    which evolved in the 1960s and 70s.
    The name blues come from the saying blue devil
    meaning melancholy and sadness. The lyrics to blues
    songs are often describing sadness. The 12 bar
    structure is a harmonic progression used in blues,
    played over a 4/4 beat. The progression uses the
    subtonic (1) the tonic (4) and the dominant (5).

    Chords played over a 12-bar


    scheme:

    Chords for a blues in C:

    I or IV

    I7

    IV

    IV

    I7

    V or
    IV

    I or V

    C or F

    C7

    C7

    G or F

    C or G

    Reggae
    The genre of Reggae was originated in the 1960s in
    Jamaica. Its used in much Jamaican dance music, but
    has strongly influenced much American jazz and blues
    and African music. One of the most easily recognizable
    elements is offbeat rhythms and staccato chords played
    by a guitar or piano. The tempo of reggae is usually
    slower than ska but faster than rock steady.[3] The
    concept of "call and response" can be found throughout
    much reggae music. The bass guitar is used a lot in
    reggae and is given a thick and heavy sound. The
    guitar normally plays the off beats. Reggae as a
    musical term first appeared in print with the 1968 rock
    steady hit "Do the Reggay" by The Maytals. Reggae is
    played in 4/4, because it doesnt work musically in
    other signatures like . The music emphasized the 2nd
    beat and 4th beat of each bar. Reggae songs normally
    use standard generic chords progressions. The concept
    of "call and response" can be found throughout reggae
    music, in the vocals but also in the way parts are
    composed and arranged for each instrument. The
    emphasis on the "third beat" of the bar also results in a

    different sense of musical phrasing, with bass lines and


    melody lines often emphasizing what might be
    considered "pick up notes" in other genres. A standard
    drum kit is generally used in reggae, but the snare
    drum is often tuned very high to give it a timbales-type
    sound. Some reggae drummers use an additional
    timbale or high-tuned snare to get this sound. Crossstick technique on the snare drum is commonly used,
    and tom-tom drums are often incorporated into the
    drumbeat itself.

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