Ab 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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