SCALE REFERENCE

E Blues

E – G – A – B♭ – B – D1 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

E1Gb3A4B♭b5B5Db7

Notes	E, G, A, Bb, B, D
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 E

Core scales & modes

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

Pentatonic & blues

E Major Pentatonic E Minor Pentatonic E Major Blues

Jazz & altered

E Harmonic Major E Phrygian Dominant E Lydian Dominant E Altered E Bebop Dominant

Symmetric

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

World & exotic

E Hungarian Minor E Double Harmonic Major E 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.