C Dominant Blues Guitar Scale

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Notes

C
D
E
F♯
G
A♯

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

Interval Structure

C T D T E T F♯ ½T G T+½T A♯ C+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