The F Blues scale is F Ab Bb Cb C Eb. It's shown below across all 24 frets: use the Shape menu to see each of the 5 positions, and press Play to hear it.
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See Mentorship PlansThe F Blues scale has 6 notes: F Ab Bb Cb C Eb. Its formula is 1 b3 4 b5 5 b7, and the gaps between the notes go W+H W H H W+H W (W is a whole step of two frets, H is a half step of one fret).
Compared with F Minor Pentatonic, it has the flat 5th (Cb).
| Degree | Interval | Name | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Root | F |
| 2 | b3 | Minor 3rd | A♭ |
| 3 | 4 | 4th | B♭ |
| 4 | b5 | Flat 5th | C♭ |
| 5 | 5 | 5th | C |
| 6 | b7 | Minor 7th | E♭ |
The fretboard above shows F Blues across all 24 frets. Its root, F, is on the low E string at the 1st fret, and Position 1 starts there. Use the Shape menu to see the 5 positions one at a time, press Play to hear the one you're looking at, and switch the labels to intervals to see where the root, 3rd and 5th sit in each shape.
Learn one position until you can play it up and down without looking, then learn the next one along and practise moving between the two. Before long the whole neck joins up.
Use it over an F blues, over F7 and Fm7 chords and in F minor rock. Treat the b5 as a passing note on the way to the 4th or 5th rather than somewhere to stop.
The blues scale is the minor pentatonic with one extra note, the b5, often called the blue note. That note gives it a gritty, bluesy tension that resolves nicely back to the 4th or the 5th.
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The F Blues scale is F, Ab, Bb, Cb, C, Eb.
The blues scale formula is 1 b3 4 b5 5 b7, which is a step pattern of W+H W H H W+H W.
There are 5 positions. Use the Shape menu on this page to see each one on its own.
Compared with F Minor Pentatonic, it has the flat 5th (Cb).