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What is the definition of blues?

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12y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

"Blues" is an indigenous black American music form usually based around a twelve-bar harmonic pattern: four tonic, two subdominant, two tonic, two dominant and two tonic. The rhythm is usually a slow 12/8 time. The lyrics are often bewailing personal tragedy or hardship--singing songs of this kind could be consoling when trying to live a difficult life.

By extension, "the blues" can mean feeling sad, put upon, unfortunate or just out of sorts.

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