BLUES LITERACY 5

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Across
  1. 1. Moving from one note to another by playing all the notes in between.
  2. 4. People were taken from _________ to work as slaves.
  3. 5. Traditional Blues songs use this form in their lyrics.
  4. 7. The 12 Bar Blues is repeated to form this pattern
  5. 8. The woman known as the "Empress of the Blues".
  6. 10. The slaves sang _______ _______ when working in the fields.
  7. 11. African people were sold to work as _________ when they reached America.
  8. 14. In a blues scale, the 3rd, 5th and 7th notes are lowered.
  9. 16. The notes C, Eb, F, Gb, G and Bb make up this pattern.
  10. 17. Blues singers often sing loudly when performing
Down
  1. 2. Blues musicians often make up the melody as they go along.
  2. 3. The lowest instruments often play this moving line.
  3. 4. African people were transported to ________ on Slave Ships.
  4. 6. When we feel sad and lonely, we feel like this.
  5. 9. To play an off-beat rhythm pattern.
  6. 12. The long-short quaver pattern found in Blues rhythms.
  7. 13. A short rhythmic or melodic idea played at the end of phrases.
  8. 15. To change the pitch of the notes slightly.