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What's the difference between the blues scale and the Pentataonic?


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What's the difference between the blues scale and the Pentataonic?

 

I'm sure that sounds dumb and I may already know...I'm just not sure, but I'm a little short on theory.

 

Thanks ahead of time.

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Even though technically...

 

Penta = the number 5, and tonic mean "from the tonic" or "tonic to tonic". So, Pentatonic mean 5 notes from the tonic, or 5 notes from the tonic to the tonic...

 

...to musicians many times the Blues scale just gets lumped in with the two most common Pentatonic scale, the Major and Minor Pents. But, the reason is more music based, blues music based, more than the scales themselves. IOW, take music from the Orient that is based on many different Pentatonic scales that ARE NOT the Major and Minor scales...

 

there is no way you would lumped the Blues scale into an analysis of music from the Orient/Far East...even when they MIGHT BE using a straight Major or Minor Pent in the music, the Blues scale would have nothing to do with those Pentatonics scales used in THAT style of music.

 

So, even though we blur the "difference" between the Pents and Blues scales, it's more based on the musical style than the scales at hand.

 

Hope that made sense.

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