SCALE REFERENCE

D Major Blues

D – E – F – F♯ – A – B1 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

D1E2Fb3F♯3A5B6

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

Core scales & modes

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

Pentatonic & blues

D Major Pentatonic D Minor Pentatonic D Blues

Jazz & altered

D Harmonic Major D Phrygian Dominant D Lydian Dominant D Altered D Bebop Dominant

Symmetric

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

World & exotic

D Hungarian Minor D Double Harmonic Major D 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.