Re: Blues scale: is this accurate?

On Sat, 21 Jun 2008 23:40:20 +0100, "David Webber"
<dave@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>
>I am getting even more confirmed in my feeling that just playing a blues 
>scale is extremely limiting.  Maybe I'm misinterreting it but you seem to
me 
>to want to get by with just 6 notes.   None of the blues I listen to does

>that - it is all much more interesting.


well, we are only talking about adding ^2 and ^6.

Gee, if the inclusion of these two notes is the difference between "much
more interesting"and not, then, yeah - I'd say you need to broaden your
horizons.
Note choice (set) is not nearly the only factor in what makes for musical
interst. Variation, contrast, loud/soft/ motivic development, rhythmic
displpacement, fast/slow, flurry/spacing of single tones sliding into a
note, expressive note production ( bending + more)...etc etc..

IMHO - the gamut of notes available is one of the LEAST im****tant factors
in pulling of a solo that moves people.. But what do I know....

Danny