Composite Blues scale
Stacking the major and minor blues scales on a shared root produces these nine notes, which amounts to the entire blues vocabulary in one collection.
- Used for
- Blues, rock and jazz-blues improvisation.
- Formula
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Steps W H H H H H W H W Semitones 2-1-1-1-1-1-2-1-2 Degrees 1 2 ♭3 3 4 ♭5 5 6 ♭7 - Also called
- Nine-Note Blues and Blues Enneatonic.
Composite Blues in all 12 keys
Pick a key to see it on the piano, or jump straight to the guitar view.
- C C Composite Blues scale piano guitar
- D flat Db Composite Blues scale piano guitar
- D D Composite Blues scale piano guitar
- E flat Eb Composite Blues scale piano guitar
- E E Composite Blues scale piano guitar
- F F Composite Blues scale piano guitar
- G flat Gb Composite Blues scale piano guitar
- G G Composite Blues scale piano guitar
- A flat Ab Composite Blues scale piano guitar
- A A Composite Blues scale piano guitar
- B flat Bb Composite Blues scale piano guitar
- B B Composite Blues scale piano guitar
