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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