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52.1Start with the blues voice
We’ll use F minor / F blues as our laboratory.
F minor pentatonic:
F A♭ B♭ C E♭
F blues:
F A♭ B♭ B C E♭
The characteristic added note:
B natural = ♭5
against F.
Play:
B♭ → B → C.
You already know this gesture.
But now we want to make it sound less like a scale exercise and more like speech.