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The hexatonic, or six-note, blues scale consists of the minor pentatonic scale plus the ♭ 5th degree of the original heptatonic scale. [1] [2] [3] This added note can be spelled as either a ♭ 5 or a ♯ 4.
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]
Hexachord ostinato, in cello, which opens Die Jakobsleiter by Arnold Schoenberg, notable for its compositional use of hexachords [1] Play ⓘ. In music, a hexachord (also hexachordon) is a six-note series, as exhibited in a scale (hexatonic or hexad) or tone row.
Alto sax plays main melody (A), based on E ♭-minor hexatonic blues scale, [c] in two similar 4-bar phrases: BB: Alto sax plays bridge melody (B), based on G ♭-major scale, in two similar 4-bar phrases AA: Reprise: Solo 1: Alto sax plays improvised modal [17] solo, based on E ♭-minor hexatonic blues scale, [d] over vamp [e] Solo 2
In contrast, in the chord-scale system, a different scale is used for each chord in the progression (for example mixolydian scales on A, E, and D for chords A 7, E 7, and D 7, respectively). [5] Improvisation approaches may be mixed, such as using "the blues approach" for a section of a progression and using the chord-scale system for the rest. [6]
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 ...
Scales are typically listed from low to high pitch. Most scales are octave-repeating, meaning their pattern of notes is the same in every octave (the Bohlen–Pierce scale is one exception). An octave-repeating scale can be represented as a circular arrangement of pitch classes, ordered by increasing (or decreasing) pitch class.
The band’s first line-up also included bassist Gary Fletcher, slide-guitarist Dave Kelly who had previously played with The John Dummer Band, Howling Wolf and John Lee Hooker and drummer Hughie Flint, of John Mayall's Blues Breakers and McGuinness Flint, the band he formed with Tom McGuinness.