SCALE REFERENCE

G Blues

G – B♭ – C – D♭ – D – F1 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

G1B♭b3C4D♭b5D5Fb7

Notes	G, Bb, C, Db, D, F
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 G

Core scales & modes

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

Pentatonic & blues

G Major Pentatonic G Minor Pentatonic G Major Blues

Jazz & altered

G Harmonic Major G Phrygian Dominant G Lydian Dominant G Altered G Bebop Dominant

Symmetric

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

World & exotic

G Hungarian Minor G Double Harmonic Major G 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.