D# Dominant Blues Scale
4-string bass · 6 notes · 6 notes · major family
Notes
D♯
E♯
F♯♯
G♯♯
A♯
B♯♯
Solfège : Ré♯ – Mi♯ – Fa♯♯ – Sol♯♯ – La♯ – Si♯♯
Interval Structure
D♯
T
E♯
T
F♯♯
T
G♯♯
½T
A♯
T+½T
B♯♯
→
D♯+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.
See fretboard positions for D# Dominant Blues in the interactive app.
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