Acoustic Gituars and drums were used.
It started when the Africans were sold as slaves to America. The Africans brought their syncopated rhythm from Africa and combined this syncopation with words to produce work songs. As the slaves worked, they sung these songs. In these work songs, the Africans used a concept called call and repeat, the foundation of the twelve bar blues. Eventually, the work songs evolved into what we call the twelve bar blues.
12 bar blues
Many instruments are used. They include the saxophone (famous for use in Blues music), the Piano and the Guitar. The Piano is usually the melody (or the head) however the Guitar can also play the melody. The Trumpet and trombone are used often as well.
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Elvis Presley - Hounddog
'Blues' is usually referred to either the '12-bar blues' or the 'blues scale'. Both are unique aspects by them self and can be put into a rock beat or a rock melody/accompaniment. Most songs are either rock or blues, the blues is hardly ever evident in rock, but it is normal for rock themes to be in songs based on 'blues music'.
The 12 bar blues are a set of 12 chords, C, C, C, C, F, F, C, C, G, F, C, C or G.For each chord there is 4 beats.The walking bass an the 12 bar blues can be played together (i tried it at school and it sounds really rubbish because i tried it and it all went wrong so never try it again and foollow dooger jam's advice bye:)
I IV V are the most important notes in the 12 Bar Blues. 12 Bar Blues is a simple progression that is used very often in most rock and pop songs today and started back in the early days of Rock 'n' Roll.
Paolo Nutini's Pencil Full of Lead and Duffy's Mercy
Elvis Presley- Hounddog and also Eliza Doolittle- Pack up! :D
the blues
12 bar blues in F major is a blues pattern of 12 bars in the key of F major. A basic blues progression uses 3 chords - the tonic (I) the dominant (V), and the subdominant (IV). For the key of F major the Tonic is F, the Dominant is C, and the subdominant is B-flat. A basic 12 bar blues pattern in F major is: F -- 3 bars F7 -- 1 bar B flat 7 -- 2 bars F -- 2 bars C7 -- 1 bar B flat 7 -- 1 bar F -- 2 bars