SCALE REFERENCE

A Blues

A – C – D – E♭ – E – G1 b3 4 b5 5 b7

Minor pentatonic plus the 'blue note' — the flat 5th passing between the 4th and 5th. The core vocabulary of blues and rock lead playing.

Notes & degrees

A1Cb3D4E♭b5E5Gb7

Notes	A, C, D, Eb, E, G
Steps	3 – 2 – 1 – 1 – 3 – 2 (semitones)
Also called	Minor Blues, Hexatonic Blues

Piano

Guitar & ukulele — every position (frets 0–12)

Root notes are red. The full map of the scale on the guitar neck; the common box patterns are groups of these notes.

The same scale on a ukulele in standard G–C–E–A tuning.

Other scales on A

Core scales & modes

A Major A Natural Minor A Harmonic Minor A Melodic Minor A Dorian A Phrygian A Lydian A Mixolydian A Locrian

Pentatonic & blues

A Major Pentatonic A Minor Pentatonic A Major Blues

Jazz & altered

A Harmonic Major A Phrygian Dominant A Lydian Dominant A Altered A Bebop Dominant

Symmetric

A Whole Tone A Diminished (Whole–Half)A Diminished (Half–Whole)A Augmented Scale

World & exotic

A Hungarian Minor A Double Harmonic Major A Neapolitan Minor

Blues on another root

C C♯D D♯E F F♯G G♯A B♭A♯B

Keep exploring

See the diatonic chords with audio in the Scale & Chord Finder, find where a key sits among the others on the Circle of Fifths, or start the free Cloud Atelier music guides.