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