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