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. Hear it, see it on the keyboard and find the chords that belong to it.
B1
D♭3
E4
F♭5
F♯5
A♭7
Steps: 1½ W H H 1½ W