How To Play The Blues?

When you play blues in a certain key, how do you normally pepper your blues scale notes with non-scale notes?

• Non-scale notes are just notes that aren't part of the blues scale that you play. I am playing blues on trumpet which is pretty cool. I am translating a lot of my harmonica ...show more

• Answer:

  i'm a guitarist, first of all. I like to, like the above poster, use chromatic passing tones. I also use some notes from harmonic and natural minor scales. Often I'll takes these notes, and 'bend' the note into key. Say for instance, taking the D# from the Harmonic minor scale and bending up a semitone to the E, to resolve the tension created from the D#. Sometimes I take notes completely out of key, say A#, and bend it into key, to B.