blue note

(idiomatic, music) Any of the notes that produce the characteristic clashes with the underlying harmony associated with blues music. The flatted third, flatted fifth and flatted seventh can all be considered blue notes when played over major or dominant chord progressions, while only the flatted fifth will clash with minor chord progressions.


blues scale

The blues scale:
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(music) A minor hexatonic scale originating in the American musical genre blues, consisting of tonic, minor third, fourth, diminished fifth, fifth, and minor seventh, in which notes, particularly the minor third, fourth, diminished fifth, and minor seventh may be bent. It can also be called the minor blues scale when distinguishing it from its only other functional mode the major blues scale.


delta blues

(music) A form of blues originating in the Mississippi Delta region of the United States, generally featuring minimal instrumentation and song structure.


blues

en-noun

blues (countable and uncountable, plural blues)

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Many great blues musicians came from the Mississippi Delta region.

A large portion of modern popular music is influenced by the blues.

(music) A musical form, African-American in origin, generally featuring an eight-bar or twelve-bar blues structure and using the blues scale.

My next number is a blues in G.

(music, in the singular) A musical composition following blues forms.


blues

(music) blues (a musical genre of African American origin)


eight-bar blues

eight-bar blues (countable and uncountable, plural eight-bar blues)

(music) A blues form built on an eight-measure chord pattern, most typically I, I, IV, I, V7, IV, I, V7, where I, IV and V7 represent the tonic, subdominant and dominant seventh chords respectively.


twelve-bar blues

(music) A blues form built on a twelve-measure chord progression, most typically based around the tonic, subdominant and dominant seventh chords of a key.


boogie

(informal, US) A piece of solid or semisolid mucus in or removed from the nostril cavity.


boogie

Come on girls, let's get on the dancefloor and have a boogie!

(informal) Any relatively energetic dance to pop or rock music.

(skydiving, informal) A large, organised skydiving event.


groove

From Middle English grov, grove, groof, grofe (“cave; pit; mining shaft”), from Old English grōf (“trench, furrow, something dug”), from Proto-West Germanic *grōbu, from Proto-Germanic *grōbō (“groove, furrow”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrebʰ- (“to dig, scrape, bury”). Cognate with Dutch groef, groeve (“groove; pit, grave”), German Grube (“ditch, pit”), Norwegian grov (“brook, riverbed”), Serbo-Croatian grèbati (“scratch, dig”). Directly descended from Old English grafan (“to dig”). More at grave.

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How could he be expected to make music that put the audience in a groove, he reasoned, if he wasn't grooving himself?

2010, Jan Reid, Shawn Sahm, Texas Tornado: The Times and Music of Doug Sahm, page 57:

(dated, informal) A good feeling (often as in the groove).


R & B

rhythm and blues
rhythm and blues#English


rhythm and blues

From early 1940s, replacing earlier race music.

(music) A style of music combining elements of jazz and blues, with syncopated rhythms and a strong backbeat, originating among African Americans in the 1940s.


bluesy

en-adj

bluesy (comparative bluesier, superlative bluesiest)

bluesier (comparative)
bluesiest (superlative)

When he entered the kitchen, Vida was folding clothes and singing along to some bluesy country music on the radio.

2003, Toni Morrison, Love, Vintage (2016), page 46:

(music, informal) Characteristic of, or similar to, the blues (a genre of music).


blues-rock

(music) A musical genre combining elements of blues and rock and roll


cry the blues

en-verb

cry the blues (third-person singular simple present cries the blues, present participle crying the blues, simple past and past participle cried the blues)

cries the blues (present singular third-person)
crying the blues (participle present)
cried the blues (participle past)
cried the blues (past)

"Young people have forgotten how to cry the blues," said Big Bill Broonzy as he lay dying in a dark room above the littered streets of Chicago's Negro South Side.

1958 September 1, “Best of the Blues”, in Time:

(music) To sing in the style of blues music.


jump blues

(music) A type of boogie-woogie blues music influenced by big band swing, typically performed by a seven-piece combo and characterized by use of horns, shuffle rhythm, group singing during the choruses and raunchy lyrics.


punk-blues

(music) A genre of punk rock that is influenced by the blues.


soul-blues

(music) A genre of vocal soul music with a gospel-influenced bluesy sound.


club blues

(music) A genre of popular blues music intended to be played in nightclubs.


Piedmont blues

(music) A genre of guitar-based blues from the East Coast of the United States.


hill country blues

(music) A genre of country blues from Mississippi.


swamp blues

(music) A genre of blues influenced by Cajun and Creole music and associated with Baton Rouge, Louisiana.


country blues

(music) A genre of blues with a rural style and elements from folk music.


Chicago blues

(music) A genre of popular electric guitar-based blues associated with Chicago.


electric blues

(music) Any genre of blues that uses the electric guitar.


Texas blues

(music) A genre of blues that uses electric guitars and power riffs, associated with Texas.


gospel-blues

(music) A genre of blues with Christian lyrics and influenced by gospel music.


classic female blues

(music) The style of popular vocal blues performed by women in the early 20th century.


bluester

A musician who plays the blues or music influenced by the blues.


藍調

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bluesify

bluesify (third-person singular simple present bluesifies, present participle bluesifying, simple past and past participle bluesified)

bluesifies (present singular third-person)
bluesifying (participle present)
bluesified (participle past)
bluesified (past)

2000, Tracy Johnson, ncounters with Bob Dylan: If You See Him, Say Hello
Most harpists back then played cross harp, sucking in on the notes to bend and bluesify them.

(transitive, music) To adapt to sound like blues.


リズム・アンド・ブルース

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ja:リズム・アンド・ブルース


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цзецзоу булусы

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blueseiro

pt-adj

blueseiro (feminine blueseira, masculine plural blueseiros, feminine plural blueseiras)

blueseira (feminine)
blueseiros (masculine plural)
blueseiras (feminine plural)


blueseiro

pt-noun

blueseiro m (plural blueseiros, feminine blueseira, feminine plural blueseiras)

blueseiros (plural)
blueseira (feminine)
blueseiras (feminine plural)