D# Dominant Blues Guitar Scale

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Notes

D♯
E♯
F♯♯
G♯♯
A♯
B♯♯

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

Interval Structure

D♯ T E♯ T F♯♯ T G♯♯ ½T A♯ T+½T B♯♯ D♯+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 D# Dominant Blues on guitar in the interactive app.

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Same scale in other keys