Guitar scales

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

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A Blues Scale on the whole neck, frets 0-15. Gold = the root (A).

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