Blues Diminished scale
Both thirds appear in these six notes, along with the flat fifth blue note and the natural fifth beside it, which makes the scale a compressed blues vocabulary.
- Used for
- Blues and jazz-blues solos.
- Formula
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Steps 1½ H W H 1½ W Semitones 3-1-2-1-3-2 Degrees 1 ♭3 3 ♭5 5 ♭7
Blues Diminished in all 12 keys
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- C C Blues Diminished scale piano guitar
- D flat Db Blues Diminished scale piano guitar
- D D Blues Diminished scale piano guitar
- E flat Eb Blues Diminished scale piano guitar
- E E Blues Diminished scale piano guitar
- F F Blues Diminished scale piano guitar
- G flat Gb Blues Diminished scale piano guitar
- G G Blues Diminished scale piano guitar
- A flat Ab Blues Diminished scale piano guitar
- A A Blues Diminished scale piano guitar
- B flat Bb Blues Diminished scale piano guitar
- B B Blues Diminished scale piano guitar
