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Old August 29th, 2008, 12:55 PM   #10 (permalink)
Charlie Bernstein
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Yeah, slides, bends, and hammer-ons work, but just picking the two notes can be good, too - it has a brassier sound than the softer attacks.

And yes - B.B. King agrees with you: He says his habit is to fix mistakes by sharpening them - sliding up. But since I'm playing the b3 on purpose, I think of it as part of one particular blues scale. But thinking about it your way also makes sense - and it fits Larry's position that there's no such thing as a one-way scale.

So - what are these clusters of notes I'm wondering about called if they're not called scales? And what about SRV's two-octave scale?....
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