SCALE REFERENCE

B♭ Major Blues

B♭ – C – D♭ – D – F – G1 2 b3 3 5 6

Major pentatonic with a chromatic passing note between the 2nd and 3rd — the bright, country-and-western side of blues phrasing.

Notes & degrees

B♭1C2D♭b3D3F5G6

Notes	Bb, C, Db, D, F, G
Steps	2 – 1 – 1 – 3 – 2 – 3 (semitones)

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♭ 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

Major Blues on another root

C C♯D♭D E♭E F F♯G A♭G♯A B♭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.