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Old August 28th, 2008, 10:39 AM   #8 (permalink)
Charlie Bernstein
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Originally Posted by Larry F View Post

In practice, there is no rule about up and down versions.

Everything you all are saying is great - and you're giving me a ton of homework!

I do have one question - about up-and-down versions. Maybe I'm not opening my ears enough, but when I'm playing blues (about half my playing time), I find that (in C):

- C Eb E G C sounds expressive.
- C G E Eb C sounds chaotic.

Isn't that an example of a scale that sounds better one way than the other? Up, it's a blues scale, down, it's just some random notes.

Or - is "scale" the wrong word for what I'm trying to get at?
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