Blue note
![]() :This article is about the blue note musical device. For the record label, see Blue Note Records. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ 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. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ 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. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Blue notes are also prevalent in English folk music (Lloyd 1967, p.52-4). ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Jazz: :For other article subjects named Jazz see jazz (disambiguation).... Blues: :For other uses, see blues (disambiguation)... Note: In music, a note is either a unit of fixed pitch that has been given a name, or the graphic representation of that pitch in a notation system, and sometimes its duration, or a specific instance of either, so one can speak of "the second note of Happy Birthday" for example. The general and specific m... Blue note related Images and Photos (experimental)
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