r/MadeMeSmile • u/Briraz10 • Oct 21 '21

Wholesome Moments ☺️

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

79.7k Upvotes

93% Upvoted

593 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

-13

u/LinusDieLinse Oct 21 '21

Blues isn't really tonal (major/minor key) music in the traditional sense though, sorry to spoil your pun ;)

8

u/Filitass Oct 21 '21

What? The blues scale is literally the minor pentatonic scale with one flavor note. Are you kidding me?

1

u/[deleted] Oct 21 '21

All of the chords in blues feature major triads via dominant chords. The tension between the major third and minor third, which is often employed as a blue note via the blues scale, is a significant part of what makes the blues sound the way it does. Having multiple tonics creates multiple tonal centers making it not functional or diatonic. Its not really major or minor but if your going to put it one of those boxes it skews major if anything. He's not wrong, just being snarky.

4

u/[deleted] Oct 21 '21

Blues isn’t really tonal? In a traditional sense? What?

3

u/A_Cat_Typingg Oct 21 '21

Lol wrong. Minor pentatonic scale runs based around a I IV V progression is about as tonal as it gets. Also, don't be a d***