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