A Dominant Blues Guitar Scale
6-string guitar · 6 notes · 6 notes · major family
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.
See fretboard positions for A Dominant Blues on guitar in the interactive app.
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