Guitar scale · minor blues scale
B Blues Scale
Minor pentatonic with the added ♭5 (Blue Note) for characteristic emotional grit.
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How to play B Blues on guitar
Find the root first: B is at fret 7 on the low E string and fret 2 on the A string. The blue notes on the diagram are every B on the neck; the gold ones are the other chord tones (3rd, 5th and 7th), which are the safest notes to land on at the end of a phrase.
Learn it one box at a time. Position 1, the E shape, sits at frets 7–10. Once it's under your fingers, move to position 2 (the D shape) and play the notes the two boxes share, then keep going up the neck. After all five, the scale joins up into one pattern across the whole fretboard.
Degrees
| Degree | Note |
|---|---|
| 1 | B |
| ♭3 | D |
| 4 | E |
| ♭5 (Blue Note) | F |
| 5 | F# |
| ♭7 | A |
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Questions
- What notes are in the B Blues Scale?
- The B Blues Scale has 6 notes: B, D, E, F, F#, A.
- What is the formula of the blues scale?
- 1 ♭3 4 ♭5 5 ♭7, which is the step pattern W+H W H H W+H W (W = whole step, H = half step).
- Where do I play B Blues on the guitar?
- The root B is at fret 7 on the low E string and fret 2 on the A string. Position 1 (the E shape) covers frets 7–10, and four more positions connect it up the neck.