On Jun 21, 11:47 am, "David Webber" <d...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:
> "Ben Crowell" <crowel...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> news:485d20dc$0$7102$4c368faf@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > 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."
Let me count the ways!
What Community college jazz improvisation teacher? (in most cases, not
all, this phrase is an oxymoron and we have no way of knowing with out
more information.
"Heck of a good blues player" can mean a lot of things. With out even
some information as to who decides if he is indeed one heck of a
blues player and what the standards of this may be this is just too
subjective to have any merit.
"Said essentially the same thing" is not really very restrictive and
could mean anything. What exactly does this mean? We just don't know.
He called it the "White man's blues scale." Does this really need a
comment? I didn't realize that it is common knowledge that the blues
were so racial! I mean, it is acknowledged that the blues had its
roots in the slave community, but does "White man's Blues Scale" mean
that the Creoles, the Free men of color, the and the Blacks after
slavery are all "White Men" as it seems apparent that all of these
racial groups have adopted the blues and made it their own
irregardless of Race, Creed or Social Cast!
What a perfectly useless comment.
>
> I think that summarises what I had in mind when I said I though it
sounded
> "derivative".
>
> Dave
And why does this being a summary of your view point not come as a
surprise! lol, I have to agree, however, that this statement does, in
fact, summarize your viewpoint to a "T". I have to commend you Dave,
not many people would be honest enough to admit to that in a public
forum!
LJS
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