"blues scale" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: blues scales [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} blues scale (plural blues scales)
  1. (music) A minor hexatonic scale originating in the American musical genre blues, consisting of tonic, minor third, fourth, diminished fifth, fifth, and minor seventh, in which notes, particularly the minor third, fourth, diminished fifth, and minor seventh may be bent. It can also be called the minor blues scale when distinguishing it from its only other functional mode the major blues scale. Categories (topical): Blues music, Music Related terms: blue note, blue scale, blues

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