B♭ blues scale
B♭ blues
- B♭R
- D♭♭3
- E♭4
- F♭♭5
- F5
- A♭♭7
Positions
How it is built
- The minor pentatonic plus one note: F♭, the flat fifth. Six notes.
- F♭ is the blue note. It is a passing tone, not a resting place: slide through it between E♭ and F.
- Works over every chord of a 12-bar blues in B♭, major or minor.