blues scale

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Noun

1. {{lb|en|music}} A [[minor]] [[hexatonic]] scale originating in the American musical genre [[blues]], consisting of tonic, minor third, fourth, [[blue note|diminished fifth]], fifth, and minor seventh, in which notes, particularly the minor third, fourth, diminished fifth, and minor seventh may be [[bend|bent]]. It can also be called the [[blues scale|minor blues scale]] when distinguishing it from its only other functional [[mode]] the [[major]] [[blues]] [[scale]].

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