Db 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.

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Same scale in other keys