Meaning blues scale
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blues scale


A diatonic major scale incorporating a lowered or bent 3rd, a lowered or bent 7th and sometimes a lowered or bent 5th to approximate melodic notes that originated in African work songs. Since the actu [..]
Source: dictionary.onmusic.org

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blues scale


[4] normally C, D, E flat, E, F, F#, G, A, B flat, C. This scale is very common in jazz.
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blues scale


a pentatonic scale with a “blues note” added to it.
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blues scale


(music) 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 th [..]
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