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Re: Chords and Scales



on 3/24/03 5:03 PM, Dick Hauser at richelizhauser (at) attbi(dot)com wrote:

> Hope you'll indulge me in a reality check.  Today I was looking at a
> Blues "lead sheet".  One of the chord notations is D7(b9b13).  When I
> actually started thinking about how to use that chord, I realized
> that it marks out Ahava Raba on D.  Is that right?

That chord does indeed contain all the notes of the freygish scale. Yet more
proof of the link between klezmer and blues!

Seth
 
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