SCALE REFERENCE

B Blues

B – D – E – F – F♯ – A1 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

B1Db3E4Fb5F♯5Ab7

Notes	B, D, E, F, F#, A
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 B

Core scales & modes

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

Pentatonic & blues

B Major Pentatonic B Minor Pentatonic B Major Blues

Jazz & altered

B Harmonic Major B Phrygian Dominant B Lydian Dominant B Altered B Bebop Dominant

Symmetric

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

World & exotic

B Hungarian Minor B Double Harmonic Major B 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.