Re: Blues scale: is this accurate?

On Sat, 21 Jun 2008 08:40:12 -0700, Ben Crowell
<crowell08@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>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."

Dude, you need to cut that racist bull**** right now, quick. It's just
this
sort of lowbrow mentality that was leveled against a monster musician
named
Dave Brubeck which tried to complete disallow the public from truly
appeciating the man's superior musicality.
 Ditto Bill Evans, although thankfully, time has rendered opinions such as
yours to be complete nonsense. The question of whether a white man can
play
the blues has no place in our small segment of society known as
rec.music.theory. 

I WOULD HOPE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Danny