A blues scale
A blues
- AR
- C♭3
- D4
- E♭♭5
- E5
- G♭7
Positions
How it is built
- The minor pentatonic plus one note: E♭, the flat fifth. Six notes.
- E♭ is the blue note. It is a passing tone, not a resting place: slide through it between D and E.
- Works over every chord of a 12-bar blues in A, major or minor.