D blues scale
D blues
- DR
- F♭3
- G4
- A♭♭5
- A5
- C♭7
Positions
How it is built
- The minor pentatonic plus one note: A♭, the flat fifth. Six notes.
- A♭ is the blue note. It is a passing tone, not a resting place: slide through it between G and A.
- Works over every chord of a 12-bar blues in D, major or minor.