Guitar scale
C Major Blues Guitar Scale
C Major Blues is a six-note scale built from C, D, Eb, E, G, and A. Use it to study the scale's notes, interval formula, and guitar fretboard positions.
- Notes
- CDEbEGA
- 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 C root notes in the fretboard view, while circular markers represent the other notes in the scale.
Use the interactive fretboard to locate the C root notes and connect the remaining major blues tones across standard tuning.
Fretboard diagram
Open this scale in the fretboard tool
Start with C Major Blues loaded, then adjust tuning, labels, colors, fret count, and orientation.
Open in interactive fretboardCommon chords and contexts
- Use C major blues over C 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.