Re: Blues scale: is this accurate?

"Tom K." <tkorth1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "David Webber" <dave@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> A lot of early blues would finish a chorus with the sequence of notes
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>> b3 2 1
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>> You can argue it is (by now) a cliché, but you can't argue it away. 
>> You can possibly argue in some cases that the 2 is a passing note, but 
>> "scales" contain passing notes - that's their point.   Arguing too 
>> strictly in favour of the hexatonic blues scale is like arguing that it

>> cannot happen.
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> Or you can hear the ^2 as implying dominant harmony with the ^b3 as a 
> decoration (appoggiatura, passing tone, etc.) - a more CPP approach, to
be 
> sure.  Naturally, this would be highly dependant on context.


Or, could the b3 REALLY be a #9 so it's a Dominant V7#9?

b3-2 over a V7 chord reminds me a lot of the movement of viio7 - V6/5.

Steve