VerbalIntercourse
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It's all there.
The Blues scale is a approximation of the African Scale btw. The "BLUE" note that you can hear in many Jazz and ragtime pieces is an attempt to create a note in the African Scales that doesn't exist in European scales. You've probably heard a bunch of times in your life, but you just didn't really know the origin of it.
Honestly, I don't think you're really getting the big picture here. Think about the fundamentals of music. Tonal Scales, Rhythm, and song structure.
This is European Music before the infusion of West African music traditions.
Notice the lack polyphonic rhythm. Notice the 1 and 2 feel.
American Country basically continued this in this tradition.
This is American Pop "folk" music after the infusion African Traditions
Even in at this time, you can hear the White country influences, but the African Poly rhythm is there, and there clear Call-and-response between the right Hand chords and the left and chords. Later in the Piece, that White rhythm leaves the piece and it is pretty much all poly rhythm.
However, You can hear in this piece that eventually the white "countryness" isn't found in a lot of Black Music anymore...
Virtually gone by this time
until...
This is when the "Whiteness" came back in full force.
Black people again innovated within the new form of Euro-african fusion rhythm called "rock"
All the While Caribbean Music held on to more African rhythmic influences.
The Blues scale is a approximation of the African Scale btw. The "BLUE" note that you can hear in many Jazz and ragtime pieces is an attempt to create a note in the African Scales that doesn't exist in European scales. You've probably heard a bunch of times in your life, but you just didn't really know the origin of it.
Honestly, I don't think you're really getting the big picture here. Think about the fundamentals of music. Tonal Scales, Rhythm, and song structure.
This is European Music before the infusion of West African music traditions.
Notice the lack polyphonic rhythm. Notice the 1 and 2 feel.
American Country basically continued this in this tradition.
This is American Pop "folk" music after the infusion African Traditions
Even in at this time, you can hear the White country influences, but the African Poly rhythm is there, and there clear Call-and-response between the right Hand chords and the left and chords. Later in the Piece, that White rhythm leaves the piece and it is pretty much all poly rhythm.
However, You can hear in this piece that eventually the white "countryness" isn't found in a lot of Black Music anymore...
Virtually gone by this time
until...
This is when the "Whiteness" came back in full force.
Black people again innovated within the new form of Euro-african fusion rhythm called "rock"
All the While Caribbean Music held on to more African rhythmic influences.
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