Blues Scale – Guitar
The minor pentatonic plus one extra note, the 'blue note' (b5), which gives blues and rock licks their bite.
Formula: 1 – b3 – 4 – b5 – 5 – b7. The shapes are movable: learn them in one key and slide them to any other. Here it is in A, the most common key to learn it in.
A blues scale on the whole neck
Pick a key
- C Blues Scale
- C♯ Blues Scale
- D Blues Scale
- E♭ Blues Scale
- E Blues Scale
- F Blues Scale
- F♯ Blues Scale
- G Blues Scale
- G♯ Blues Scale
- A Blues Scale
- B♭ Blues Scale
- B Blues Scale

Know the scale?
Now solo with it.
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- From 3 notes to your own solos
- Every note on the neck, with sound and TAB
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