F# Dominant Blues Scale

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Notes

F♯
G♯
A♯
B♯
C♯
D♯♯

Solfège : Fa♯ – Sol♯ – La♯ – Si♯ – Do♯ – Ré♯♯

Interval Structure

F♯ T G♯ T A♯ T B♯ ½T C♯ T+½T D♯♯ F♯+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