The Blues

The blues is a musical genre that began to be developed by African Americans. The Blues consists of keeping long notes. The Blues started in the United States, they started using instruments and voices to make blues notes and this consists of 12 bars. This genre became one of the most famous in the twentieth century, for the seventies this becomes one of the most important genres. Much of the music we listen to is part of this musical genre such as jazz, rock and roll, funk, heavy metal, hip-hop, country and pop music. This genre was developed through spiritual, prayer songs, work songs, English rhymes, Scottish and Irish ballads narrated and field shouts. The use of blues notes and the importance of call and response patterns, both in music and in lyrics, are indicative of the African-Western heritage of this genre.