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