![]() From that point of view Blues is crazy and wrong – playing dominant major 7th chords all over minor pentatonic scales, using chromatic scale pieces for intros and turnarounds, using a 5 tone scale instead of the accustomed 7 tone scales, adding notes that don’t belong to any scale – and these stupid chord progressions… so it’s only an attempt to describe what we call the Blues. The classical music theory is not well suited to describe the Blues, but we don’t have a choice. ![]() If you want to learn more about these, look at the basics. Looking into a music book you’ll find dozens of different scales and modes, major and natural/melodic/harmonic minor, dorian, lydian, mixolydian, aeolian or phrygian mode and even more. It must fit to the song and the chords, not all notes on your fretboard would give a nice sound if played in one song. When you want to play a solo, you have to know which notes you can play. The Blues are a mystery, and mysteries are never as simple as they look!” But the Blues aren’t a science, the Blues can’t be broken down like mathematics. ![]() “The Blues are a simple music and I’m a simple man. ![]()
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