Blues (English: blue) is a kind of vocal music and instrumental music based on pentatonic scale, and its other feature is its special harmony. The blues originated from the soul music, hymns, labor songs, shouts and hymns of black slaves in the United States in the past. The "Voice of Blues" used in the blues and Qiying's singing style all show its West African origin. Blues had a great influence on American and western pop music. Ragtime, jazz, bluegrass, rhythm and blues, rock music, country music and ordinary pop songs, and even modern classical music all contained blues elements or developed from blues. [1] This word is often used to describe melancholy in poetry. The word blues is consistent with the meaning of "Bluedevils", meaning low-key, sad and melancholy. As early as 1798, George Coleman wrote a farce called "The Blue Devil, a farce". In the 19th century, the word was used to mean tremors, delirium and policemen. The application of this word in African-American music may be older. Memphis Blues by William Christopher Handy in Memphis in 1912 is the earliest written record of this word in music. Blues music began in the southern part of the United States in the early twentieth century. It also mixes the rhythm and rhythm of similar recitation forms in the church. This kind of music has an obvious characteristic, that is, it is performed in the form of "one call at a time" similar to China folk songs, which is called "Call and Reponse" in English. At first, phrases will give people a feeling of nervousness, crying and helplessness, and then the following phrases will be like comforting and relieving the suffering people. It's like a suffering person crying to God, and then being comforted and responded by God! Therefore, blues music attaches great importance to the venting of self-emotion and originality or improvisation. This improvisational playing method has gradually evolved into various kinds of music, such as Rock and Roll, Swing and Jazz ... So blues is also the root of modern pop music. As for the harmonica widely used in blues music, it began in the mid-192s. At that time, there were many street performers performing music in the United States. Their common instruments were banjo, drums and a wind instrument called "pan quill pipes". Because the performance of guitar and harmonica is better than these traditional instruments and more suitable for performing in empty places, harmonica is often used to play blues music gradually. Around the 193s, many black people moved to Chicago, a big city, where blues music and blues harmonica were also spent, and later they formed a school called Chicago Blues. When listening to blues music, you will find that they all seem to follow the same musical form. The reason is that the blues concert often uses a standard form called 12 Bar Blues. The origin of the blues Because the blues are formed in their personal performances, it is difficult to point out the similarities and differences of all blues. But before the emergence of modern blues, all African-American music had certain similarities. The earliest blues music is a "functional expression, and its corresponding singing has no accompaniment, harmony, restriction to any form and no special musical structure." These pre-blues music, which originated from the shouts and calls of slaves working in the field, gradually expanded into "simple single songs with emotional content" Today's blues can be regarded as music based on the chord structure in Europe and developed from Africa to singing and guitar alternately. Many elements of the blues, such as the form of inspiration and the use of the blues, can be traced back to African music. Cirbian Diouf pointed out that certain features-such as the use of Hua Yin and light, nasal tone-seemed to show the connection between blues and music in Central and West Africa. Gerhard Kubik, a ethnomusicologist, was probably the first person to point out that some elements of the blues came from Africa. For example, kubik pointed out that Handy's Mississippi technique of playing guitar with a blade described in his autobiography is very common in West and Central African cultures, and the local 21-string harp (Kora) similar to guitar is the most commonly used singing accompaniment stringed instrument. This technique involves the guitarist pressing the strings of the guitar with a knife, which may be the source of the Slide guitar technique. Later, the blues absorbed the minstrel show and the Spiritual of black music, including its musical instruments and chord accompaniment. The relationship between blues and ragtime is also very close, but blues better preserves the "melody structure of primitive African music". [5] The structure of early songs is very different. Songs of this period can be found in the recordings of Leadbelly and henry thomas. But later, the blues form based on tonic harmony, subordinate harmony and whole orange fifth harmony became the most popular form. What is regarded as a typical 12-verse blues today appeared in the black community in the lower Mississippi River in the early 19 s. This process has both oral history and music scores. Bill Street in Memphis is one of the places where the early blues were formed. 1 Kenny Neal and Andrea Re - No More One More Chance 2 Charlie Musselwhite - Life Will Be Better 3 Jimmy Thackery, Reba Russell and Earl Cate - I Still Want To Be Your Man 4 Junior Wells - Trying To Get Over You 5 Eddie Kirkland, Jaimoe and Christine Ohlman - Lonely Street 6 Lay Sam - I'm Gonna Shoot Her 7 Tab Benoit - Her Mind Is Gone 8 Joe Louis Walker and Andrea Re - S trangers In Our House 9 Luther "Guitar Junior" Johnson - I Pity The Fool 4:38 1 Charlie Musselwhite - Faithless Lover 11 Debbie Davis, Kenny Neal and tab Benoit-deal with it 12 mighty Sam McCain-Battlefield of love

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