Author: Matt74
Date: 2018-12-24 05:57
I'm sure someone more knowledgeable can say more, but I don't think of it that way. I think of the blues scale as being it's own thing, and technically it's only "minor", because it contains the minor third.
I think of flat 3rds, 5ths, and 7ths as alterations of the major scale. Depending on the tune and what the band is playing you can use them in a "major" or "minor" tune. Jazz players tend not to run the straight blues scale as much as Blues or R&B players do, but they use flat 3rds, 5ths, and 7ths all the time.
Again, I'm sure someone more sophisticated can say it better, but when you are playing the blues - meaning it sounds bluesy - you can play mostly flat thirds. When you are playing a major tune in a 12 bar blues form - that sounds like jazz in a major key - you can play more major thirds.
If you like you could think of a "major blues scale" as something like 1, 2, b3, 3, 4, (b5), 5, 6, b7. or: C, D, Eb, E, F, (F#), G, A, Bb, C.
All that said, most of the time if you start playing blues scales everyone will follow.
- Matthew Simington
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