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Across
  1. 2. When notes are played off the beat.
  2. 5. A style of singing that uses nonsense words.
  3. 6. Blues music is often built around this structure of chord changes.
  4. 8. A bass line consisting of a bass note, then a chord, repeatedly. Used heavily in ragtime music.
  5. 9. A style of music that commonly uses instruments, improvisation, syncopation and scat singing.
  6. 10. An instrumental technique where a trumpet/trombone player plays with a mute. This gives a very 'jazzy' sound.
Down
  1. 1. This type of music is very well-known for using syncopation in the melody and is typically played on a piano.
  2. 3. when a performer makes up their own melodic part on the spot during a performance.
  3. 4. Music from the 1800's, originating in the southern states of America. Often referencing the themes of slavery and speaks out about the discrimination experienced by people of African-American heritage.
  4. 7. The blues scale is made up of the notes: C, E flat, F, F sharp, G and ___?