Re: Blues scale: is this accurate?

"Danny Schorr" <.@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> But that's just him. Play a blues scale along with Jimmy Reed Or john
Lee
> Hooker, and you'll find that they do stick to these notes.

But B.B. King, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Eric Clapton, etc. etc. etc.

There are times when T-Bone would stick to just those notes as well Danny,

but I think we're understanding that as a "subset" of a larger set rather 
than a separate scale - though the concept of switching modes/scales 
mid-phrase is not impossible obviously.


>
> It's a pentatonic scale with chromatic filler notes between ^2 and ^3,
> ^4 and ^5
>>

I don't like "Pentatonic". There's Pentatonic Major:
1 2 3 5 6
and Pentatonic Minor
1 b3 4 5 b7

C D E G A

How is
C D Eb E F Gb G A Bb Pentatonic with filler notes?

I can see the Eb between D and E of a Major Pentatonic, but there's no 4
in 
a Major Pentatonic.

One might see a blues scale as a combination of Major and Minor
pentatonic:
C D E G A
C D Eb G Bb

which yeilds:
C D Eb E G A Bb.

Of course that doesn't contain the b5 or scale degree 4. And it's not
really 
informative to think of it as superimposed pentatonics.


>
> They use ^9 in their guitar playing, but NOT in their singing.

Really?

^6  does
> occur in vocalizing.

>>
>>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.
>
> Just as you can major/minor scales.

Exactly.

Steve