Vocabulary Blog Oct 26

128-211

Lucille (111) - The name that BB King gave numerous of his guitars that he felt as though fit the name.
Work song (113) - The songs that would be sung during work on plantations.
Blue note (130) - The note that makes the blues the blues according to BB King. This note is the Flatted seventh.
Blues (130) - A style of music that is purely based from the soul.
Delta (131) One of the three most popular styles of blues.
Transition (133) WWII marked the transition from acoustic blues to electric blues
Chant (114) - A style of singing that was found on the fields of plantations
Chicago (132) - The second of the three popular styles/ origins of the blues.
Bend (158) - A technique BB King used on the guitar to sound like he was singing through his guitar
Vibrato (158) - Another technique that BB used to sound like he was singing on the guitar.
Diminished (160) A common sound that BB enjoyed plugging into his solo ideas. He got this idea from Charlie Christian.
Charlie Christian (161) - Charlie Christian was a jazz musician that BB had listened too and pulled from over the years.
Plantation (112) - A place of slavery in which BB King worked at to pick cotton.
Solid State (178) - The style of amp that BB King moved towards due to its sound and solidity.
Soul (167) - The area of the body that the blues comes from according to BB King.




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