The blues is a highly effective way to engage students and ‘la’ pentatonic functions as an overlay for the hexatonic blues scale. The author discusses how the minor third, with its feeling of melancholy, combines with swing to produce an authentic sound that can be said to convey a sense of “soul” even on two notes.
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