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