Whitch scales is used by Ray Charles?

[drbane]

Whitch scales is used by Ray Charles for his licks that he often play??  

[freejazzlessonsdotcom]

Ray uses a lot of different scales and I don't think you can say he just plays one.  Have you checked out the blues scale yet though?  It may be a good place to start.  Here's the theory behind it 1 b3, 4, b5, 5, b7, 1.  So, in the key of C the notes would be C, Eb, F, Gb, G, Bb, C.

[jimbo320]

Mostly minor blues scales because he sang on the lower side of notes...

[keyofc]

What??

[iansinclair]

Ray uses a lot of different scales and I don't think you can say he just plays one.  Have you checked out the blues scale yet though?  It may be a good place to start.  Here's the theory behind it 1 b3, 4, b5, 5, b7, 1.  So, in the key of C the notes would be C, Eb, F, Gb, G, Bb, C.

Never have been able to play jazz... too uptight I suppose.  But thank you for that blues scale -- fascinating.  It is, of course, one of the classic pentatonic scales.  I'm not at all sure, though, that it's really worth considering what "scale" would be used in blues; seems to me, listening to the great blues men that they tend to use what sounds good and what works... to their ear and on their instrument!