Guitar scale
Bb Major Blues Guitar Scale
Bb Major Blues is a six-note scale built from Bb, C, Db, D, F, and G. Use it to study the scale's notes, interval formula, and guitar fretboard positions.
- Notes
- BbCDbDFG
- Formula
- 1 2 b3 3 5 6
- Semitones
- 0 2 3 4 7 9
How to read this scale
The notes are shown as pitch classes first. Square markers represent Bb root notes in the fretboard view, while circular markers represent the other notes in the scale.
Use the interactive fretboard to locate the Bb root notes and connect the remaining major blues tones across standard tuning.
Fretboard diagram
Open this scale in the fretboard tool
Start with Bb Major Blues loaded, then adjust tuning, labels, colors, fret count, and orientation.
Open in interactive fretboardCommon chords and contexts
- Use Bb major blues over Bb major blues, dominant blues, country, soul, and jump-blues phrases.
- It adds a blue-note color to major pentatonic while keeping a brighter major sound.