E Dominant Blues Guitar Scale
6-string guitar · 6 notes · 6 notes · major family
Notes
E
F♯
G♯
A♯
B
C♯♯
Solfège : Mi – Fa♯ – Sol♯ – La♯ – Si – Do♯♯
Interval Structure
E
T
F♯
T
G♯
T
A♯
½T
B
T+½T
C♯♯
→
E+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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