1, playing different instruments:

(1) Blues are blues, and the instruments used are harmonica, guitar, drum, piano, organ, bass, mandolin, banjo, saxophone, violin, trombone, trumpet and African flute. With wind music as the rhythm assistant and plucked instruments as the core.

(2) The main instruments used in jazz are cornet (trumpet/horn), clarinet, piano, saxophone, trombone, double bass, horn, violin, banjo, marimba, guitar and flute. , mainly woodwind instruments and brass instruments, all kinds of instruments can be called protagonists.

2. Different rhythms and rhythms:

The representative rhythm of Bruce is Shuffle Beat, which is based on triplet and has a strong sense of fluctuation. The representative rhythm of jazz is 4Beat Swing, which is characterized by swing and can give people the feeling of swing.

3. The formation of early players is different:

Blues and blues were played by blacks for a long time, and few whites participated in the early stage of development; Jazz was played by blacks and whites from the early days, which laid the foundation for the development of jazz until the peak of apartheid.

4. The protagonists in music are different:

The blues mainly focuses on singing, and the instrumental part serves for singing. The instrumental solo part also imitates people's feeling of speaking, singing before music. Jazz instrumental music is the protagonist, mainly instrumental music, singing first and then music.

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This kind of music has an obvious feature, that is, it is performed in a form similar to China folk songs, which is called "Call and Response" in English. At the beginning, the phrase will give people a feeling of nervousness, crying and helplessness, and then the following phrases are like comforting and relieving the suffering people.

Just like a suffering person crying to God, and then getting God's comfort and response! Therefore, blues music attaches great importance to self-emotional venting and original or improvisation. I once asked William Tang for some phrases, but he smiled and told me that he couldn't remember how the music was played at that time! Because it is impromptu! )