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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