Creating and developing musical ideas - composing skills

2c. To organise musical ideas within musical structures.

'Pappa's Blues'

• The song is from a musical called 'Starlight Express'
• Its a song in a Blues style about Blues style songs!

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As the song explains there is/ can be, a pattern to Blues songs...

"First line of the Blues always sung a second time.

I said, A first line of the Blues, always sung a second time.

Well you get to the third line, you've had time to think of a rhyme!"

"Ain't no law that says, the third lines gotta be different at all

Ain't no law that says, the third lines gotta be different at all

There ain't no law that says the third lines gotta be different at all"

The character 'Poppa' from Starlight Express

Writing Your Own 12 Bar Blues Song!