What is the Blue Note?
A blue note is largely used in most American music, from jazz, blues, rock and folk to county or gospel. However, there is a surprisingly big number of people who have no clue about what it is exactly. A blue note is played just above or below the standard note, for expressive purposes. In other words, it is a microtonal pitch played in between a note from the blues scale and a close note from the major scale. Classically speaking, blue notes are lower than we would expect, in the form of a microtonal affair of a quarter-tone or the lowering may be by a full semitone, on keyboard instruments. Blue notes may involve an upward or downward glide. How can you play blue notes on different instruments? · On a guitar, you have to move above or below a fret · In the case of wind instruments (sax, trumpet and even harmonica), you must overblow and this will bend the notes · ...