Thanks! Yes, I do have it somewhere else too, what a blues scale should be.
I just quickly played it on my harp, which is always staying out, ready to use.
No trouble with the fingers!
Now, here I got excited. You know a "normal" diatonic scale consists of 8 notes, an octave, starting and ending with the same note.
When I play the Pentatonic scales, I like NOT to stop suddenly after the 5 notes have been played, but go down again, as I showed yesterday. It gives you 9 notes and feels "complete".
With the blues scale you get 7 notes and can stop comfortably at the top note which is also the starting note, the key note.
How strange that lately I seem to get on to that "rhythm" outside music, like for instance hammering in a star post in the garden.
You will have to excuse me, I am a little bit of a nut case sometimes!
Hammering in a star post I do 7 hammerings, then have a little rest. If I am stubborn and feel strong enough, I can hammer 13, but never an equal number.
I read that the Indians prefer 13 over 12. Might sound completely silly for some, but for a musician numbers are very important. In rhyming poetry numbers are also everything. Called stanza. I am not into poetry.
Anyway, next time I hammer a star post in, I will be aware of that it is really a blues scale I am hammering! Applying it to notes might be a different matter. My ears are not accustomed to blues. You can't do everything. I will have another try one day.
I might have been a troubadour/minnesinger/minstrel. Wandering around, singing and playing. Appeals to me. The troubadours were strongly involved with the Cathars.
In the meantime we have all these different birds outside, with each their melodies and rhythms.
All is vibrations!
Cheers, Pentatonic.
