http://bolesblues.com/2009/12/30/better-blues-and-the-tritone-devils-note/ Sounding the Devil Note Wed, 16 May 2012 15:49:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://bolesblues.com/2009/12/30/better-blues-and-the-tritone-devils-note/#comment-1257 Thu, 21 Oct 2010 13:22:29 +0000 http://bolesblues.wordpress.com/2009/12/30/better-blues-and-the-tritone-devils-note/#comment-1257 [...] have been intensely studying The Blues for a year and a half and I now have a better understanding of the The Birth of the Blues and where [...]

]]> http://bolesblues.com/2009/12/30/better-blues-and-the-tritone-devils-note/#comment-975 Sat, 17 Jul 2010 15:22:01 +0000 http://bolesblues.wordpress.com/2009/12/30/better-blues-and-the-tritone-devils-note/#comment-975 [...] is the incredible, timeless, lyric.  I love how the “Devil Note” is described in creation and how it becomes “The Blue Note.” I have emphasized [...]

]]> http://bolesblues.com/2009/12/30/better-blues-and-the-tritone-devils-note/#comment-889 Sun, 11 Jul 2010 23:05:28 +0000 http://bolesblues.wordpress.com/2009/12/30/better-blues-and-the-tritone-devils-note/#comment-889 [...] Blues was originally judged by the Middling American Middle to be the work of the Devil because of the terrible sound — the flatted fifth — the music [...]

]]> http://bolesblues.com/2009/12/30/better-blues-and-the-tritone-devils-note/#comment-728 Mon, 31 May 2010 17:01:24 +0000 http://bolesblues.wordpress.com/2009/12/30/better-blues-and-the-tritone-devils-note/#comment-728 [...] You can’t successfully play The Blues without precipitously shortening your life — and it is that dangerous dagger against our own mortality that leads each of who dare to tempt The Blues deeper into the addiction to the Devil Note. [...]

]]> http://bolesblues.com/2009/12/30/better-blues-and-the-tritone-devils-note/#comment-420 Wed, 30 Dec 2009 13:50:55 +0000 http://bolesblues.wordpress.com/2009/12/30/better-blues-and-the-tritone-devils-note/#comment-420 There is definitely a “Blue Note,” Gordon, but for those who don’t know, they don’t make the specific musical connection. Heavy Metal also relies that “demon note” and Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath is generally thought of the father of the Heavy Metal sound because he alone brought the Tritone to metal.
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]]> http://bolesblues.com/2009/12/30/better-blues-and-the-tritone-devils-note/#comment-419 Wed, 30 Dec 2009 13:07:57 +0000 http://bolesblues.wordpress.com/2009/12/30/better-blues-and-the-tritone-devils-note/#comment-419 Well writ, David. I sometimes wondered, as I perused Blue Note record releases, if there were a blue note — thought it was just an expression!

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