A# Dominant Blues Guitar Scale

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Notes

A♯
B♯
C♯♯
D♯♯
E♯
F♯♯♯

Solfège : La♯ – Si♯ – Do♯♯ – Ré♯♯ – Mi♯ – Fa♯♯♯

Interval Structure

A♯ T B♯ T C♯♯ T D♯♯ ½T E♯ T+½T F♯♯♯ A♯+oct. T

About this scale

The dominant blues scale enriches the dominant pentatonic with the tritone. It sounds with maximum tension over V7 altered chords and tritone substitution dominants. Jazz-blues guitarists (Robben Ford, Larry Carlton) use it to create expressive tensions before the resolution.

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Same scale in other keys