BLUES LITERACY 5

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Across
  1. 1. Traditional Blues songs use this form of lyrics.
  2. 3. A short rhythmic or melodic idea played at the end of phrases.
  3. 5. The Africans were sold as these when they reached America.
  4. 8. To change the pitch of the notes slightly.
  5. 10. The lowest instruments often play this moving line.
  6. 11. Blues musicians often make up the melody as they go along.
  7. 13. Blues singers often sing loudly when performing.
  8. 14. Slaves sang these when working in the fields.
  9. 15. In a blues scale the 3rd, 5th and 7th scale degrees are lowered.
Down
  1. 1. Slaves were originally taken from this continent.
  2. 2. The notes C, Eb, F, Gb, G and Bb makeup this pattern.
  3. 4. African people were transported to this continent.
  4. 5. To play an off-beat rhythm pattern.
  5. 6. The long-short quaver pattern found in Blues rhythms.
  6. 7. When we feel sad and lonely we feel like this.
  7. 9. When you move from one pitch to another by playing all the notes in between.
  8. 12. A repeating pattern.