The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #86418 Message #1609575
Posted By: M.Ted
20-Nov-05 - 02:43 PM
Thread Name: What Does one Play over Blues Chords?
Subject: RE: What Does one Play over Blues Chords?
It probably is less useful to think about what scales are being played, and more useful to think about what blue notes are being added, and where-- simply because you don't play a lot of those extra blue notes in a scalar fashion--they tend to be used as punctuation, to emphasize the rhythm--as has come up before, the names of modes/scales are used just because you need to call things something if you are discussing them. Jazz players do play the scales as scales, and, to add to the confusion, they play blues too--