About the blues scale
The blues scale adds the flattened 5th, the “blue note”, to the minor pentatonic. Used as a passing tone, it gives blues, rock and jazz lines their typical bite.
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Scale
B♭ blues scale
The B♭ blues scale has 6 notes: B♭, D♭, E♭, F♭, F, A♭. Its enharmonic twin is A♯ blues. Hear it, see it on the keyboard and find the chords that belong to it.
B♭1
D♭♭3
E♭4
F♭♭5
F5
A♭♭7
Steps: 1½ W H H 1½ W