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#1813898 - 12/28/11 04:17 PM Minor Blues Scales
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Hello all.Could someone please recommend some books or give me the formulas to create natural,harmonic,and melodic blues scales?Does the blues scale come from Pentatonic scales?And if, so could someone also help me with creating pentatonic scales?Thank you.

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#1813910 - 12/28/11 04:34 PM Re: Minor Blues Scales [Re: Tango]
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#1813920 - 12/28/11 04:47 PM Re: Minor Blues Scales [Re: Tango]
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C minor blues scale:
C Eb F F# G Bb
1 b3 4 #4 5 b7

C major blues scale (same notes as A minor blues scale)
C D D# E G A
1 2 #2 3 5 6

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#1814386 - 12/29/11 11:33 AM Re: Minor Blues Scales [Re: Jazz+]
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Thank you.Is there a natural blues scale?If so does anyone use it?What is the most popular blues scale?( Blues:Natural,Harmonic,or melodic).What are the steps for the Blues Natural Scale?What are the notes of a Blues Natural Scale?

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#1814470 - 12/29/11 01:49 PM Re: Minor Blues Scales [Re: Tango]
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The flattened 5th and dominate 7th make it a blues scale. You can play both the flattened 3rd and the 3rd in a standard blues. But the major 3rd will sound like a train wreck in a minor blues progression. As far as I know there is no natural or harmonic blues.

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#1815868 - 12/31/11 11:57 AM Re: Minor Blues Scales [Re: Tango]
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Originally Posted By: Tango
Thank you.Is there a natural blues scale?If so does anyone use it? What is the most popular blues scale?( Blues:Natural,Harmonic,or melodic).What are the steps for the Blues Natural Scale?What are the notes of a Blues Natural Scale?


I listed the two blues scales above, the other names you mention are either nonexistent or irrelevant to blues.
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#1823999 - 01/13/12 10:54 AM Re: Minor Blues Scales [Re: Tango]
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Here are some notes for some blues scales I regularly use...Try these out: -

C Blues scale
C - Eb - F - G - Bb – C

F Blues scale
F - Ab - Bb - C - Eb - F

G Blues scale
G - Bb - C - D - F – G

D Blues scale
D - F - G - A - C - D
A Blues scale
A - C - D - E - G – A

E Blues scale
E - G - A - B - D – E

B Blues scale
B - D - E - F# - A - B

F# and Gb Blues scales
F# - A - B - C# - E - F#
Gb - A - B - Db - E – Gb


Db and C# Blues scales
Db - E - Gb - Ab - B - Db
C# - E - F# - G# - B - C#


Ab Blues scale
Ab - B - Db - Eb - Gb – Ab

Eb Blues scale
Eb - Gb - Ab - Bb - Db – Eb

Bb Blues scale
Bb - Db - Eb - F - Ab - Bb

Thanks.

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#1824018 - 01/13/12 11:24 AM Re: Minor Blues Scales [Re: Tango]
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for the blues scale, you might want to add the b5. Or else, it's just a pentatonic really.

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#1824064 - 01/13/12 12:38 PM Re: Minor Blues Scales [Re: knotty]
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This is my simple system (using C as example):

For C Minor I'll use C, Eb, F, Gb, G, Bb, C.

For C Major I'll either use the above, or the corresponding blues scale for A Minor (that is, A, C, D, Eb, E, G, A).
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