Question/Answer Call and Response
Part of the band poses a musical "question", or a phrase that feels unfinished, and another part of the band "answers" (finishes) it. In the blues, the B section often has a question-and-answer pattern (dominant-to-tonic).
An example of this is the Christmas song Must Be Santa:
- CALL: Who laughs this way, ho ho ho?
- RESPONSE: Santa laughs this way, ho ho ho!
A similar question-and-answer exchange occurs in the movie Casablanca between Sam and the band in the song Knock On Wood:
- CALL: Who's got trouble?
- RESPONSE: We've got trouble!
- CALL: How much trouble?
- RESPONSE: Too much trouble!
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