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Creating and developing musical ideas - composing skills

2c. To organise musical ideas within musical structures.

'Pappa's Blues'

 

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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"

 

Poppa Starlight Express...

The character 'Poppa' from Starlight Express

Writing Your Own 12 Bar Blues Song!

  • First you need to generate a Random Blues Word! (RBW )

  • 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!

 

'How to write a Blues song' sheets here...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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