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