What is the R & ampb style and what are its characteristics?

The full name of R & ampb is rhythm &；; Blues, generally translated as "rhythm complaining songs". R &； in a broad sense; B can be regarded as "black pop music", which originated from black blues music and is the basis of western pop and rock. Billboard magazine once defined R& B as all black music, except jazz and blues, which can be classified as R&; B, visible R &；; How wide is the scope of B. Hip Hop and Rap, which are very popular in black music circles in recent years, both originated from R&; Save a lot of research and development expenses during research and development. Component B. It has derived various types of music, such as rock, Disco and Rap, which we are familiar with, which can be regarded as the development of R&B.

The origin of resentment-melancholy

The predecessor of R & ampB appeared in the black area of America in the 1940s.

At that time, not many people could afford colorful entertainment. Music-loving blacks like to gather in the street after dinner and play music with simple instruments such as harmonica to express their feelings about life, work and leaving home. This developed the predecessor of B, Blues-R.

With the invention of audio tapes and the emergence of more and more small radio stations, blues music began to jump out of the black circle and became popular in Chicago. I don't know if it's because blues music has been spoken for too long, and fans are eager to hear blues songs with strong rhythm, bright rhythm and less sad content.

Musicians adapted to the change of public tastes, and added piano, drums, sexualism and the ultra-new technology at that time-electric guitar to their works, which made the audience dance with this new school of blues with strong rhythm, and achieved a classic "rhythm accusation".

Fresh rhythm

Important research and development; 1950s and 1960s; Musicians include ray charles, Ruth Brown and Wanderers. After listening to their classic works, we will find that R&; B Music, such as Jay Chou and Utoda, is very different. But as far as musical elements are concerned, there are still many similarities. The most prominent part is the rhythm part.

Most r & amp；; B works take 4 beats as a paragraph and 12 as a paragraph. Different from traditional white pop music, rhythm complaint emphasizes the second beat and the fourth beat in a paragraph, which is a very fresh rhythm effect.

The sound quality is changeable.

Both the timbre of singing and musical instruments will have great changes.

Sound quality is the "texture" of sound. When we hear Mud, we will feel that Xu Zhian sings very sadly; The sound of the wooden boy flute often gives us a very lively feeling. This is the sound quality effect of different songs and instruments.

In B's works by At R&, such as Jay Chou's Bullfighting or The Lady, we can easily find that the opening paragraph and the chorus are obviously treated differently in terms of music and sound.

The singing part and instrumental part often echo each other-in R&; In song B, when the singer sings some sounds, the music part or chorus singer will play/sing those sounds repeatedly, just like "asking and answering questions" or making them sound like echoes.

Another characteristic of R& is that some phrases and sentences will be repeated many times. Just like the continuous "I don't, I don't, I don't" in Tornado, it is an obvious example.