Re: Blues scale: is this accurate?

On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 10:12:28 GMT, Danny Schorr <.@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 10:44:50 +0100, "David Webber"
><dave@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>>
>>I just gave them as examples.  My horizons are indeed broader.   And 
>>"horizons" may be the best way of expressing it.    The problem as I see
it 
>>is,  if instead of saying "the b3 b5 and b7 were im****tant in somebody's

>>work",  you say "he played on a blues scale",  then you are immediately 
>>closing down the horizons.   You may be able to extract a blues scale
from 
>>some of what he did, but it is only one way of looking at it, and, as
you 
>>seem to agree, looking at it also from other directions is desirable.
>
>
>I'm with you, to a point. And that point is music that DOES use the notes
>of the blues scale exclusively. And 5 of them- not even the b5. 
>
>Voodoo Chile ( slight return) immediately comes to mind
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHstsGfHoNc
>
>Danny


Also see "Come Together" , quoted earlier, which uses even less notes.

D.