Eb Dominant Blues Scale

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Notes

E♭
F
G
A
B♭
C♯

Solfège : Mi♭ – Fa – Sol – La – Si♭ – Do♯

Interval Structure

E♭ T F T G T A ½T B♭ T+½T C♯ E♭+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