About the B flat Minor Blues scale
B flat Minor Blues is the minor pentatonic with one extra blue note, the classic blues sound. It's used for blues, rock and soul solos.
Learn morePositions
Playable shapes for this scale up the neck. Tap any note to hear it.
6-position system
6 four-fret boxes, one per scale degree, each a single hand position with almost no shifting. The jazz and classical way, from William Leavitt's Berklee method.
Notes and intervals
| 1 | B flat | Root |
| 2 | D flat | Minor 3rd |
| 3 | E flat | Perfect 4th |
| 4 | F flat | Diminished 5th |
| 5 | F | Perfect 5th |
| 6 | A flat | Minor 7th |
Shapes
Chromatic
Circle of Fifths
Related scales
Minor Blues in other keys
C Minor Blues D flat Minor Blues D Minor Blues E flat Minor Blues E Minor Blues F Minor Blues G flat Minor Blues G Minor Blues A flat Minor Blues A Minor Blues B Minor Blues
Modes
The same notes, starting on a different note.
