RE: [Harp-L] Blues scale (All you can eat theory served all night)



George Brooks sez:
> A Minor pentatonic:
>
> A C D E G

Yes.

> A Minor blues scale:
>
> A C D Db E G A

Not exactly. While there is both a major pentatonic scale and a minor pentatonic scale, the blues scale is always a minor scale (flat 3rd degree and flat 7th degree), so there is no such thing, strictly speaking, as the "minor blues scale." It is simply the blues scale. The blues scale starting on A is spelled:

Earthquake sez:


For my esteemed colleague Mr Brooks-
There is more than one "blues" scale. The one that I will divulge, free of charge to y'all is this one:
More of a major sound, very ueful in R & B, Pop, Country, Swing Blues
Over a C, C7, C6:


C D Eb E G A C

1 b3 3 5 6 1

this scale is a mode (same notes, new starting place) of the traditional (more minor sounding) blues scale
on the releatve minor (6th degree/note) of C:
play over A7, Amin, Amin7
A C D Eb E G A


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Michael Peloquin
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