Re: Blues scale: is this accurate?

"Steve Latham" <llatham@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>...
> But most blues uses a scale more like:
>
> 1 2 b3 3 4 b5 5 6 b7
>
>....


Quite.

And add the odd b2 b6 and 7 for decoration and you have the lot :-)   Bend

them all and you have more.  :-)

> But, this is not a "blues scale" either per se. I think it's better to 
> say...
> there are blues scales (plural) of which some of the most common types
are 
> X, Y, and Z. And of course, if you want to go there, you can discuss the

> living, breathing nature of those scales and tones interchangeability
and 
> so forth.

It might also be better to say that blues is not a scale at all, but a way

of approaching the music.   Certain scales may help you learn to do that, 
but should not be considered the be all and end all.    As I have said,
the 
concept of "a blues scale" appears to be many decades younger than the 
concept of "blues".

Dave
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> Best,
> Steve
>
>