Re: Blues scale: is this accurate?

"Ben Crowell" <crowell08@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> BestStudentViolins.com wrote:
>> 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.
>
> I had a community college jazz improvisation teacher who was a heck
> of a good blues player, and he said essentially the same thing. He
> called it the "white man's blues scale."

I think that summarises what I had in mind when I said I though it sounded

"derivative".

Dave
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