Blues Music

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Across
  1. 3. People who were shipped from Africa to work without pay and in poor conditions
  2. 6. An instrument that improvises the responses.
  3. 9. The emotion / mood of the Blues.
  4. 11. The three letter pattern for the lyric structure.
  5. 13. Making musical ideas up on the spot.
  6. 15. One of the goods harvested on the plantations.
  7. 16. The number of bars in each verse
Down
  1. 1. One person sings a musical idea and another musician answers with a different musical idea. Question and Answer phrases.
  2. 2. The number of different chords used in Blues.
  3. 4. The tempo of Blues music.
  4. 5. The number of beats in each bar
  5. 7. The instrument that plays the chord pattern.
  6. 8. Created by emphasising the off-beats. A mix of on and off beats.
  7. 10. The chords and melody use ________ rhythm (Ham and eggs).
  8. 12. The country in which the Blues originated.
  9. 14. The last word of each line usually ______ with each other.