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
A blues scale
The A blues scale has 6 notes: A, C, D, E♭, E, G. Hear it, see it on the keyboard and find the chords that belong to it.
A1
C♭3
D4
E♭♭5
E5
G♭7
Steps: 1½ W H H 1½ W