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A major feature of the blues scale is the use of blue notes—notes that are played or sung microtonally, at a slightly higher or lower pitch than standard. [5] However, since blue notes are considered alternative inflections, a blues scale may be considered to not fit the traditional definition of a scale. [6]
Use of key signature usual or unusual ... Blues scale: Blues scale on C. Play ... Hungarian major scale on C. Play ...
blues major pentatonic scale: ... in a major key: in a minor key: natural Ionian (start with C, use all white keys) Aeolian (start with A, use all white keys) harmonic
The blue notes are usually said to be the lowered third, lowered fifth, and lowered seventh scale degrees. [1] [2] [3] The lowered fifth is also known as the raised fourth. [4] Though the blues scale has "an inherent minor tonality, it is commonly 'forced' over major-key chord changes, resulting in a distinctively dissonant conflict of ...
The blues scale is so named for its use of blue notes. Since blue notes are alternate inflections, strictly speaking there can be no one blues scale, [8] but the scale most commonly called "the blues scale" comprises the minor pentatonic scale and an additional flat 5th scale degree: C E ♭ F G ♭ G B ♭ C. [9] [10] [11]
Seventh chords are a type of chord that includes the 7th scale degree (that is, the 7th note of the scale). There are different types of 7th chords such as major 7ths, dominant 7ths, minor 7ths, half diminished 7ths, and fully diminished 7ths. [8] These chords are similar with slight changes, but are all centered around the same key center.
According to Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart, A major is a key suitable for "declarations of innocent love, ... hope of seeing one's beloved again when parting; youthful cheerfulness and trust in God." [3] For orchestral works in A major, the timpani are typically set to A and E a fifth apart, rather than a fourth apart as for most other keys.
The blues scale ["a chromatic variant of the major scale"] is often found in jazz and popular music with blues influence." [3] Mode mixture, using minor triads in the major key [4] Final chord of Arnold Schoenberg's Sechs kleine Klavierstücke, 2nd movement, [5] in thirds: C–E–G–B–D ♯ –F ♯ –A ♯ –C