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

["Michael Peloquin" <peloquinharp@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 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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Harp players need to eat more of this stuff for a healthy musical life.



Michael Peloquin
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