SCALE REFERENCE

C♯ Blues

C♯ – E – F♯ – G – G♯ – B1 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

C♯1Eb3F♯4Gb5G♯5Bb7

Notes	C#, E, F#, G, G#, B
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 C♯

Core scales & modes

C♯ Major C♯ Natural Minor C♯ Harmonic Minor C♯ Melodic Minor C♯ Dorian C♯ Phrygian C♯ Lydian C♯ Mixolydian C♯ Locrian

Pentatonic & blues

C♯ Major Pentatonic C♯ Minor Pentatonic C♯ Major Blues

Jazz & altered

C♯ Harmonic Major C♯ Phrygian Dominant C♯ Lydian Dominant C♯ Altered C♯ Bebop Dominant

Symmetric

C♯ Whole Tone C♯ Diminished (Whole–Half)C♯ Diminished (Half–Whole)C♯ Augmented Scale

World & exotic

C♯ Hungarian Minor C♯ Double Harmonic Major C♯ 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.