On Sat, 21 Jun 2008 09:32:06 +0100, "David Webber"
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>"BestStudentViolins.com" <SunMusicStrings@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>I have an online friend, a working jazz pianist, who wrote me the
>> following:
>>
>> This blues scale is entirely inaccurate because there's really no such
>> thing as a blues scale. At best, certain cheap book authors have
>> touted the minor pentatonic as a blues scale, possibly adding the
>> diminished fifth or augmented fourth. But, actual blues music rarely
>> uses this combination of notes in a recognizably scalar fa****on.
Bull****.
>
>This is essentially true, as I mentioned in different words in my earlier
>post. The "blues scale" is a modern construct. (I'd be interested to
>know how modern. It's possible it was never mentioned before the 1980s,
>but if there is earlier do***entation, I'd definitely be interested in
it.)
You must be either kidding, or not looking hard enough.
>It does provide a simple way of sounding "bluesy", but yes "actual blues
>music" does not restrict itself to this palette of 6 notes.
No music really restricts itself to *any* palette of notes, if you take
expressiveness into consideration. But for a standard templete to bridge
from - yes, the blues DOES use these six notes.
Albert, BB, Freddie, Robert Johnson, Jimi, Jimmy (Page), Dylan, Muddy,
Duane (Allman), Buddy (Guy), Lennon/McCartney- when they did a blues
tune,
Clapton, John Lee Hooker, Earl Hooker - the road goes on forever.
When the masters play the blues, they use this scale as a basis.
Tthere may be chromatic alterations, sure - usually the m3-M3
interpolation, and ^5-^-6 ^8 ( relative major/minor juxtapositioning) but
this IS what it is - the blues scale is REAL - and REALLY used IN
PRACTICE.
On this planet, at least.
Danny
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