Db Dominant Blues Scale

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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.

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Same scale in other keys