blues scale
A minor hexatonic scale originating in the American musical genre blues, consisting of…A minor hexatonic scale originating in the American musical genre blues, consisting of tonic, minor third, fourth, diminished fifth, fifth, and minor seventh, in which notes, particularly the minor third, fourth, diminished fifth, and minor seventh may be bent. It can also be called the minor blues scale when distinguishing it from its only other functional mode the major blues scale.
» After some experimenting, Heyer decided to use the pentatonic minor blues scale.
Meaning
1 sensesA minor hexatonic scale originating in the American musical genre blues, consisting of tonic, minor third, fourth, diminished fifth, fifth, and minor seventh, in which notes, particularly the minor third, fourth, diminished fifth, and minor seventh may be bent. It can also be called the minor blues scale when distinguishing it from its only other functional mode the major blues scale.
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- a musical scale having intervals that mutate between major and minor and used especially in jazz.
Examples
1 sentencesAfter some experimenting, Heyer decided to use the pentatonic minor blues scale.
Forms
plural: blues scales| Singular | blues scale |
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regular