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C# Minor Blues Guitar Scale

C# Minor Blues is a six-note scale built from C#, E, F#, G, G#, and B. Use it to study the scale's notes, interval formula, and guitar fretboard positions.

Notes
C#EF#GG#B
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

C# Minor Blues Guitar Scale fretboard diagram in standard tuning C# Minor Blues Guitar Scale fretboard diagram in standard tuning

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 fretboard

Common chords and contexts

C# Minor Pentatonic Guitar Scale same-root pentatonic core C# Natural Minor (Aeolian) Guitar Scale same-root full minor scale C# Dorian Guitar Scale same-root minor mode with a natural 6
C# Minor Guitar Arpeggio same-root minor triad core C# Minor 7 Guitar Arpeggio same-root minor seventh outline C# Minor 7 Flat 5 Guitar Arpeggio same-root flat-5 color

Scale diagrams by tuning

E Flat Standard Tuning Eb Ab Db Gb Bb Eb D Standard Tuning D G C F A D C Standard Tuning C F Bb Eb G C B Standard Tuning B E A D F# B Drop D Tuning D A D G B E Drop C# Tuning C# G# C# F# A# D# Drop C Tuning C G C F A D Drop B Tuning B F# B E G# C# DADGAD Tuning D A D G A D Open E Tuning E B E G# B E Open D Tuning D A D F# A D Open G Tuning D G D G B D Open C Tuning C G C G C E Open A Tuning E A E A C# E 7-String Standard Tuning B E A D G B E 7-String Drop A Tuning A E A D G B E 7-String Drop G Tuning G D G C F A D 8-String Standard Tuning F# B E A D G B E 8-String Drop E Tuning E B E A D G B E