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Summary: Learn how to play blues music on the flute from a professional flutist in this free music lesson video about musical instruments and music theory.

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Kiely Griffin Kiely Griffin is a third-year music management and jazz flute student at the Hartt School of Music in West Hartford, CT. She has previously served as vice pre... read more

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The History of Blues Music

The Blues is a style of music that was created from African Americans. When there came over to the United States and worked a slaves in the plantations in the early 1900's. It is a form of emotional expression created from field hollers, work songs and ring shouts that were used and evolved into a twelve bar form known as the Blues. This Blues is started the evolution of Jazz music and is still around today. Let?s look at the basic cord changes in the Blues. We have the one cord, four chord, one, one for the first four bars. The second four bars we have four cord, four chord, one, one. For then for the third four bars we have five, four and one, one. These are the basic cord changes for the Blues.

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