On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 16:37:24 GMT, "Steve Latham" <llatham@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>"Danny Schorr" <.@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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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.
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>But B.B. King, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Eric Clapton, etc. etc. etc.
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>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.
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Crossroads. I know you've heard it a million times. EC starts out in the
major pentatonic - A,B,C#,E,F# - for his first few phrases. then he ramps
it up by switching to the true A minor pentatonic - A,C,D,E,G for the
follw-through on his first solo. The second solo is all A blues scale -
A,C,D,E,G.
I have a hard time conceptualizing this as anything but a change of scale.
If you want to view it as all one big gamut of notes, fine, but the actual
playing clearly shows the artist switching between the use of two scales.
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>> It's a pentatonic scale with chromatic filler notes between ^2 and ^3,
>> ^4 and ^5
>>>
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>I don't like "Pentatonic". There's Pentatonic Major:
>1 2 3 5 6
>and Pentatonic Minor
>1 b3 4 5 b7
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>C D E G A
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>How is
>C D Eb E F Gb G A Bb Pentatonic with filler notes?
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>I can see the Eb between D and E of a Major Pentatonic, but there's no 4
in
>a Major Pentatonic.
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>One might see a blues scale as a combination of Major and Minor
pentatonic:
>C D E G A
>C D Eb G Bb
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>which yeilds:
>C D Eb E G A Bb.
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Yes, I was aware I made an error there and you caught it.
I was thinking of Monk's "straight, No Chaser" and erred.
>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.
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>> They use ^9 in their guitar playing, but NOT in their singing.
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>Really?
As far as I can tell, yes.Though I have not done a controlled study of
the
problem, of course :-)
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>^6 does
>> occur in vocalizing.
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>>>
>>>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.
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>> Just as you can major/minor scales.
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>Exactly.
hey - two music theorists agree on something. Alert the media!
Danny
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