Editing Jazz scale (section)

==Blues scale==
{{Main|Blues scale}}{{Image frame|content=<score sound="1">
{
\override Score.TimeSignature #'stencil = ##f
\relative c' {
  \clef treble
  \time 6/4 c4^\markup { "Six-note blues scale, built on C" } es f fis g bes c2
} }
</score>

<score sound="1"> {
\override Score.TimeSignature #'stencil = ##f
\relative c' {
  \clef treble \time 9/4
  c4^\markup { "Nine-note blues scale, built on C" } d es( e) f g a bes( b) c2
} }
</score>
|width=300|caption=Two types of blues scales}}The term ''blues scale'' refers to several different scales with differing numbers of pitches and related characteristics. The six-note blues scale consists of the [[Pentatonic scale#Minor pentatonic scale|minor pentatonic scale]] plus a chromatic passing tone between the 4 and 5. This added note can be spelled as either {{music|b}}5 or {{music|#}}4. Guitarists often mix the major and minor pentatonics together along with the blues scale.

Another common blues scale has nine notes (shown to the right). Winthrop Sargeant defines this scale as "a definite series of tones within an octave used as the basis of a musical composition," compiled instead from multiple compositions and improvisations (according to [[Marshall Stearns|Stearns]]: "a great many jazz records") and is hypothesized as displaying the influence of [[African music]].<ref>Sargeant, Winthrop (1946). ''Jazz: Hot and Hybrid''. New York, Dutton. Cited in [[Marshall Stearns|Marshall Winslow Stearns]] (1970). ''The Story of Jazz'', {{Full citation needed|date=July 2015}} p. 278. {{ISBN|0-19-501269-0}}.</ref> The E{{music|flat}} and B{{music|flat}} are [[blue note]]s.<ref>Metfessel, Milton, cited in Stearns (1970), p. 278.</ref>
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