Backing track
Creating and developing musical ideas - composing skills
2c. To organise musical ideas within musical structures.
'Pappa's Blues'
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The song is from a
musical called
'Starlight Express'
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Its a song in a
Blues style
about Blues style songs!
As the song explains there is/ can be, a pattern to Blues songs...
line 1.........................................................................................blah blah blah 'cat'
line 2.........................................................................................blah blah blah 'cat'
line 3...................................blah blah blah something that rhymes with 'cat!'
However sometimes blues songs can simply go...
line 1.........................................................................................blah blah blah 'cat'
line 2.........................................................................................blah blah blah 'cat'
line 3.........................................................................................blah blah blah 'cat'
The character 'Poppa' from Starlight Express
Writing Your Own 12 Bar Blues Song!
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First you need to generate a Random Blues Word! (RBW
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Press the button below!
- Next write the RBW in the space provided on your sheet... (download here...)
- Now think of a rhyming word that goes with your RBW...(if you need some help with rhyming try this link here...)
- Write your rhyming word down in the space on your sheet.
- Now...fill in the other words to make sentences that make sense, or make you smile!!
- Take a look at the example below....
Good luck with your composing!
Alternative Blues song sheet here...
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