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Noun: blues scale
  1. A musical scale having intervals that mutate between major and minor and used especially in jazz.
    "There are no notes in the minor pentatonic that are not in blues scale for the same scale, but a true blues scale contains a flatted fifth."

Type of: musical scale, scale

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