East Coast blues
Encyclopedia
East Coast blues casts a wide net covering all of Piedmont blues
- a style that relied on fast, virtuosic fingerpicking and added influences such as ragtime
- as well as the urbanized R&B
of New York blues
and countless smaller regional styles.
Piedmont blues
Piedmont blues refers primarily to a guitar style, the Piedmont fingerstyle, which is characterized by a fingerpicking approach in which a regular, alternating thumb bass string rhythmic pattern supports a syncopated melody using the treble strings generally picked with the fore-finger,...
- a style that relied on fast, virtuosic fingerpicking and added influences such as ragtime
Ragtime
Ragtime is an original musical genre which enjoyed its peak popularity between 1897 and 1918. Its main characteristic trait is its syncopated, or "ragged," rhythm. It began as dance music in the red-light districts of American cities such as St. Louis and New Orleans years before being published...
- as well as the urbanized R&B
Rhythm and blues
Rhythm and blues, often abbreviated to R&B, is a genre of popular African American music that originated in the 1940s. The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to urban African Americans, at a time when "urbane, rocking, jazz based music with a...
of New York blues
New York blues
The New York blues is a type of blues music, characterized by significant jazz influences and a more modernized, urban feel than the country blues...
and countless smaller regional styles.