B Dominant Blues Scale
4-string bass · 6 notes · 6 notes · major family
Notes
B
C♯
D♯
E♯
F♯
G♯♯
Solfège : Si – Do♯ – Ré♯ – Mi♯ – Fa♯ – Sol♯♯
Interval Structure
B
T
C♯
T
D♯
T
E♯
½T
F♯
T+½T
G♯♯
→
B+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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