A# Dominant Blues Scale
4-string bass · 6 notes · 6 notes · major family
Notes
A♯
B♯
C♯♯
D♯♯
E♯
F♯♯♯
Solfège : La♯ – Si♯ – Do♯♯ – Ré♯♯ – Mi♯ – Fa♯♯♯
Interval Structure
A♯
T
B♯
T
C♯♯
T
D♯♯
½T
E♯
T+½T
F♯♯♯
→
A♯+oct.
T
About this scale
The dominant blues scale enriches the dominant pentatonic with the tritone (#4/b5). Very close to the overtone/Lydian dominant scale, it sounds with maximum tension over altered dominant chords. Indispensable for expressive jazz-blues bass lines.
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