The major blues scale is one of the most important blues scales to know. It is built with tonic(1), second (2), minor third (
3 - passing tone), major third (3), fifth (5) and sixth(6). The major blues scale is a useful device when you want to improviseover major anddominant chords, indeedit will gives some bluesy vibes to your guitar solos.
This is a hexatonic scale, it means that it contains six notes per octaves just as the minor blues scale. In comparison with the major pentatonic scale, there is an additionalnote between the second (2) and the major third (3).
Major Blues Scale
3), this a blue note. Flat tenth is more appropriate in this harmonic context because a scale can't have twothirds in its composition.
The two diagrams below show the differences between the minor blues scale and the major blues scale. The minor blues scale interval pattern is 1 -
Here is a comparative chartbetweenthe major scale, the major pentatonic scale, the major blues scale, theminor pentatonic scale and the minor blues scale :
Pentatonic And Blues Scales For Seven String Guitar (basic Scale Guides For Seven String Guitar, Band 5)
Here are some guitar shapes to play the major blues scale.The first thing to do is tolocate the tonicnote (1), this is the orange notein the diagrams. It gives the keyand will serve asbasisfor the transposition oftheseshapes. Notice that the passing tone
3) is represented in blue. The first four charts show how to play the major blues scale in positions within the space of one octave.
The major blues scale can be used over majorchords as maj6, maj7, maj9 and maj13. It can also beemployed over dominant chords as dom7, dom9, and dom13. Playing a major blues scale overdominant and majorchordhighlights the 9 and 13.
The Minor And Major Blues Scales On Bass Guitar
Here are six easy guitar patterns using the A major blues scale (A - B - C - C# - E - F#). Each lick starts on a specific intervalof the scale : Root (A), second (B), minor third (C), major third (C#), fifth (E) and sixth (F#).
Thefollowing exercise is a classic blues in A7. There are only three chords A7, D7 and E7 corresponding to I7, IV7 and V7 degrees. As you can hear, three major blues scale are employed, A major blues over A7, D major blues over D7 and E major blues over E7.When it comes to soloing, the blues scale is one of the most commonly used scale there is. Despite it’s name, the blues scale is not just used in blues music, but across other genres such as jazz and rock as well. Let’s take a look at what makes up this widely used scale.
The blues scale is a 6-note scale (hexatonic scale) based on the pentatonic scale. It’s a pentatonic scale with an added 6th note, the blue note.
G Blues Guitar Scale
Like the pentatonic, there are both major and minor blues scales. With its basis in the pentatonic scale, the blues scale is easy to learn and play, which contributes to its wide usage across musical genres.
The minor blues scale is what generally comes to mind talking about the blues scale. The minor blues scale is very versatile and can be used over both major and minor chord progressions.
It is the flat 5th that gives the blues scale that signature sound. Let’s take a listen to hear the difference between the minor pentatonic and the minor blues scale.
The Major Blues Scale Patterns For Guitar
In the major blues scale, it is the flat 3rd that contributes to the classic blues sound. Let’s take a listen to a couple of examples as we did above.
In both scales, the blue note (♭3 in major, ♭5 in minor) creates a dissonant, unresolved sound. Combining this characteristic with playing the minor blues scale over a major chord progression, particularly those using dominant 7th chords, and you really achieve the authentic blues feel.
Let’s now take a look at how this scale is applied to the guitar fretboard. If you’re already familiar with the pentatonic scale patterns, learning the blues patterns will be a breeze.
How To Master The Blues Scale On Guitar
Similar to the pentatonic scale, there are five positions of the major and minor blues scale. We’ll start by going through each of the minor blues scale positions. Each diagram contains the scale shape, intervals, and recommended fingerings for playing the scale. Included below each diagram is the tab for that position.
As a general rule of thumb when practicing scales, you want to start on the root note. This helps enforce the sounds of the other scale notes in relation to the home, or root note, to establish a key center.
The A minor blues patterns are derived from the A minor pentatonic scale, but also includes a ♭5. The root notes are highlighted with orange note markers.
Major Pentatonic In The Blues
The diagrams below show the minor blues scale in the key of G minor. The scale patterns for both A minor and G minor are exactly the same, the only difference is the root note from which the scale is built. I chose two different keys to highlight this concept.
The major blues patterns are derived from the major pentatonic scale, but also includes a ♭3. The major blues scale diagrams below are in the key of A major.
Like the minor blues scale examples above, the major blues scale shapes are exactly the same regardless of what major key it is. Again, the difference is the root note form which the patterns is built.
The Three Types Of Minor Blues Scale
In this lesson we learned about the blues scale, a popular scale used across many genres of music. The scale is derived from the pentatonic scale with an added “blue” note, the ♭5 in case of the minor and ♭3 in the major. In future lessons we’ll take a look at specific applications of these scales over chord progressions.
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