G# Dominant Blues Guitar Scale

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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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Same scale in other keys