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<blockquote data-quote="Pete Effamy" data-source="post: 556714" data-attributes="member: 7201"><p>In the context of how we all communicate music ie definite pitches, they are, and have to be. They are still written down on manuscript as those pitches. Through our musical intelligence / interpretation we manipulate the notes microtonally as you say, but there’s no definitive manipulation to a definitive amount of microtonalism, so explanations are impossible.</p><p></p><p>And as Pete says, they’re obviously fixed for keyboard players, and they still sound great playing the blues.</p><p></p><p>Perhaps for a more comfortable definition it could be said that blues note occur on the b3, b5 & b7 - or some kind of wording.. but people that know what they are already know what is meant (and don’t usually take against the definition).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Pete Effamy, post: 556714, member: 7201"] In the context of how we all communicate music ie definite pitches, they are, and have to be. They are still written down on manuscript as those pitches. Through our musical intelligence / interpretation we manipulate the notes microtonally as you say, but there’s no definitive manipulation to a definitive amount of microtonalism, so explanations are impossible. And as Pete says, they’re obviously fixed for keyboard players, and they still sound great playing the blues. Perhaps for a more comfortable definition it could be said that blues note occur on the b3, b5 & b7 - or some kind of wording.. but people that know what they are already know what is meant (and don’t usually take against the definition). [/QUOTE]
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