SCALE REFERENCE

G Major Blues

G – A – B♭ – B – D – E1 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

G1A2B♭b3B3D5E6

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

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.