Blues subgenres include country blues, Delta blues and Piedmont blues, as well as urban blues styles such as Chicago blues and West Coast blues. Blues has since evolved from unaccompanied vocal music and oral traditions of slaves into a wide variety of styles and subgenres. The first publication of blues sheet music was in 1908. Chroniclers began to report about blues music at the dawn of the 20th century. It is associated with the newly acquired freedom of the former slaves. The first appearance of the blues is often dated to after the ending of slavery. The origins of the blues are also closely related to the religious music of the Afro-American community, the spirituals. Many elements, such as the call-and-response format and the use of blue notes, can be traced back to the music of Africa. Early blues frequently took the form of a loose narrative, often relating the racial discrimination and other challenges experienced by African-Americans. It was only in the first decades of the 20th century that the most common current structure became standard: the AAB pattern, consisting of a line sung over the four first bars, its repetition over the next four, and then a longer concluding line over the last bars. Early traditional blues verses consisted of a single line repeated four times. "The Blues" is also characterized by its lyrics, bass lines, and instrumentation. The Muslim slaves added their own flair to their field holler songs, with African diaspora historian Sylviane Douf describing the way they sang "words that seem to quiver and shake" as very reminiscent of the Adh an, or Islamic call to prayer. Blues music is heavily influenced by "field holler" songs, sung by the slaves as they worked in the fields. An estimated 30% of African slaves brought to America were Muslim. One of the first wholly American styles of music to gain traction and recognition across the world was blues music, developed in the American South by African slaves, many of whom were Muslim. Blues shuffles or walking bass reinforce the trance-like rhythm and form a repetitive effect known as the groove. Blue notes (or "worried notes"), usually thirds, fifths or sevenths flattened in pitch, are also an essential part of the sound. The blues form is ubiquitous in jazz, rhythm and blues, and rock and roll, and is characterized by the call-and-response pattern, the blues scale, and specific chord progressions, of which the twelve-bar blues is the most common. Blues incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads from the African-American culture. For a huge range of scores for solo guitar and guitar in ensemble at all levels of learning, please visit A YouTube recording and film will be uploaded before the end of July 2022.Blues is a music genre and musical form that originated in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. I usually play the piece from a lead sheet to allow freedom for improvisation, but I felt a published ‘concert’ version may be useful for other players. It is for this reason that I love to play this version for audiences. I remember it having a profound impact on me as a child. I was introduced to Georgia by a primary school music teacher in the 1970’s. It is perhaps this ambiguity and possible double-meaning of the lyric which make it so alluring. In 1979 the song was officially designated as the State Song of Georgia. Writers have speculated that the song was written about Carmichael’s sister, named Georgia, but the writer himself state it was inspired by the US state. Both versions also have chord symbols in case players wish to improvise around the sequence. This download gives you a version with just notes and a second with notes and TAB. My solo arrangement is designed for more experienced players. Ray Charles’ version reached number 1 in the Billboard chart that same year. This classic song was composed in 1930 and has become best associated with the single by Ray Charles, recorded in 1960. Published by DanJonesGuitarist (A0.1048353).
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