... may also continually repeats one note over and over. The melody is frequently syncopated, which means playing on the off - beat. It can be improvised as well, which is making it up as you go along. When the melody is sung, the verses usually have three lines to them. The fourth line has an instrumentation in it. This is when an instrument plays a solo to fill in the gaps. There are also call and response songs. This is because blues was first performed in the cotton fields where slaves worked - in which phrases from a lead singer are answered by others. Two famous Blues artists are Bessie Smith and John Lee Hooker. These people were one of the first great blue singers. Two other styles that were influenced by Blues music are Jazz and Rock n' Roll. Jazz developed from the blues in the early 20th century, again in the southern ...

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