Guitar scale
C Minor Blues Guitar Scale
C Minor Blues is a six-note scale built from C, Eb, F, Gb, G, and Bb. Use it to study the scale's notes, interval formula, and guitar fretboard positions.
- Notes
- CEbFGbGBb
- Formula
- 1 b3 4 b5 5 b7
- Semitones
- 0 3 5 6 7 10
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 minor blues tones across standard tuning.
Fretboard diagram
Open this scale in the fretboard tool
Start with C Minor Blues loaded, then adjust tuning, labels, colors, fret count, and orientation.
Open in interactive fretboardCommon chords and contexts
- Use C minor blues over C minor blues, rock riffs, and many dominant blues progressions.
- It adds the flat 5 blue note to minor pentatonic for extra pull and grit.