Lost your head blues More about Smith Words to define Blues-melancholic music of black American folk origin, typically in a twelve-bar sequence. Melisma-a group of notes sung to one syllable of text. Swing-a style of jazz or dance music with an easy flowing but vigorous rhythm. Cornet-a brass instrument resembling a trumpet but shorter and wider, played chiefly in bands. Scoop-approaching a sung note from below, rather than attacking it Slide- An ornamentation consisting of two grace notes approaching the main note. Motif-A short rhythmic or melodic passage that is repeated or evoked in various parts of a composition.

Instruments: African drums (conga, bongo. Play 'Lost Your Head Blues' by Bessie Smith and have students clap along with both a flat four rhythm and then a. Bessie Smith, 'Lost Your Head Blues' Muddy Waters, 'Mannish Boy' Instruments: A piano or alternative instrument. And improvisational elements of playing the blues.

Lost your head blues written in 1926 originally written because the album she was working on was one song short completely improvised key of e-flat AAB rhyme pattern About Bessie AND NOW.. TO JAZZ born in 1894 she had natural musicality improvised poetry never had formal training made many blues recordings put many ornaments in her singing took 3 years to find a record label signed to columbia records columbia was bankrupt and her first recording gained them alot of dough(not pizza) $$. Root Cause Analysis Software. This recording was called down hearted blues Faith And Timmy's Prezi for Listening examples 13+14 and the blues through jazz musical eras.