Part one of term paper
When was brought to Chicago it became a more powerful, hard-edged type of music, but kept its original form. This consisted of the two basic kinds of traditional blues: the Slow Blues and the Fast Blues. The names do not define the tempo of the two, because both can be played either way. The Slow Blues is the most common kind of Blues and is ...

Part two of term paper
... are also rarer forms of Blues such as sixteen-bar forms with four lines of verse, eight bar forms with two lines of verse, and other variations. Which form is the earlier, more basic one remains unknown but the Fast and Slow Blues are probable because of their African origins. To add to the musical form used to create , musicians innovated three main practices that all have origins in West African musical traditions. Cross-rhythms are multitudinously used in and are the foundation of West Afric ...