Blue note

:This article is about the blue note musical device. For the record label, see Blue Note Records.

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In jazz and blues, blue notes are notes sung or played at a lower pitch than those of the major scale for expressive purposes. Typically the alteration is less than a semitone, but this varies among performers.

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The blue notes correspond approximately to the flatted third, flatted fifth, and flatted seventh scale degrees, although they approximate non-equal tempered pitches found in African work songs; specifically, the flatted seventh may often be a justly tuned minor seventh. Blue notes are the most important notes in the blues scale.

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In its earliest manifestations, the flatted mediant and subtonic were the main blue notes. Emphasis on the flatted fifth or dominant was an innovation in bebop in the 1940s.

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Blue notes are also prevalent in English folk music (Lloyd 1967, p.52-4).

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Blue note related Images and Photos (experimental)

Blue Note	Blue	BLUE	Blue
Blue I	Anita No Te Rajes (OST) CD	Blue Sun	Blue Boy
Blue III	Blue Cat	Blue Sky	Blue Ice (DVD)