National 3 Music – 20th Century Music
Concepts
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Blues
Improvisation
Jazz
Pop
Rock ’n’ Roll
Rock
Riff
Discord
• Drum kit
• Drum fill
• Electric Guitar
The Blues
• Blues started as Black American folk music,
developing from spirituals and work songs.
• Blues music is often in 4/4 time and is mostly
patterned on a 12-bar structure (although 8
and 16 bars are also found) and
on a scale where some notes are
flattened.
Muddy Waters
Robert Johnson
Big Maybelle
B.B. King
Blues Scale
Jazz
• At first this was music created by black
Americans in the early 20th century.
• Features of the music may include
syncopation and improvisation.
Benny Goodman
2013 Compilation
Glenn Miller
Woody Herman
Duke Ellington
Jools Holland
Improvisation
• The performer makes up music during the
actual performance. They don’t have the
melody written down to help, although there
may be suggested chords as a guide.
• Improvisation is an important feature of jazz
and popular music.
Three Blind Mice
Isn't She Lovely
Chord
• Two or more notes sounding together (play a note,
miss a note, play a note, miss a note, play a note).
Axis of Awesome (clean)
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Listening to chord changes
Related concept – chord change
Follow the pattern of a 12 bar blues on the next
slide and identify on what chord your teacher
stops the music.
Lonely Avenue - Ray Charles
Ray Charles- What'd I Say
Duffy – Mercy
The Clash - Should I Stay or Should I Go
Chuck Berry - Johnny B. Goode
I/C
I/C
I/C
I/C
IV/F
IV/F
I/C
I/C
V/G
IV/F
I/C
I/C
Dischord
• A chord in which certain notes clash.
Schoenberg
A chord – pleasant sounding
(play a note, miss a note, play a note,
miss a note, play a note)
A dischord – unpleasant sounding,
clashes
Riff
• A repeated phrase usually found in jazz and
popular music.
• This illustration shows the guitar riff for a song
by The Kinks called 'You Really Got Me'. Notice
the repeat marks at the start and end of the
bar.
You Really Got Me
Back in Black
I Believe in a Thing Called Love
Ice Ice Baby
Rock ’n’ Roll
• 1950s American music which grew from the
combined styles of jazz, blues, gospel and
country.
Jailhouse Rock
Rock Around The Clock
Medely with Cliff Richard
Pop
• A style of popular music played by a group of
musicians.
Dancing Queen
Barbie Girl
The One That Got Away
Rock
• A style of popular music with a heavy, driving
beat. Usually features electric guitar, bass
guitar and drum kit
Use Somebody
How You Remind Me
Dream On
Smells Like Teen Spirit
Drum kit
• A set of drums and cymbals often used by rock
bands and pop groups.
Led Zeppelin - Moby Dick (Live at Royal Albert Hall)
Rowan Atkinson - Invisible Drum Kit
Drum fill
• A rhythmic decoration played on a drum kit
Kings Of Leon - Use Somebody
Muse 'Supremacy' | BRITs 2013
The Muppets: Bohemian Rhapsody
Electric Guitar
• A guitar which requires an electric amplifier to
produce sound.
Smoke On The Water - Guitar Solo
Iron Maiden - Fear Of The Dark
Metallica - Enter Sandman
Muse 'Supremacy' | BRITs 2013