torsdag 04 februari 2010 07:48:03 skrev Ken Restivo: > Blues definitely originates from Africa-- the pentatonic scale is still > used in the N'Goni and Kora there today >From what I remember in music class is that pentatonic is all over the world. I wouldn't say that using pentatonic defines blues. But some one with more insight in musical theory might want to chime in here. A funny coincident with the pentatonic scale is that yesterday I went over to the Culture House (Kulturhuset) in Stockholm to listen to the first record [1] with a blues song in it and it stroke me that it was very pentatonic except for the trombone solo part with a few blue notes. It actually was more what I today would call early Swedish jazz and not the blues scale dominated blues that we often hear today. [1] The Original Green Orchestra (T.O.G.O) Stompin' The Blues, 1928 /bengan _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
