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R234p567Each colour is a scale degree, counted from the key. A ♭ or ♯ note keeps its degree's colour: ♭3 is still amber.
B minor pentatonic blues (blues scale)
Minor pentatonic with the blue note: a ♯4 squeezed between the 4th and 5th, so 4 – ♯4 – 5 climbs in half steps. Bluesy, crying, a little dirty.
Where you hear it: Blues, rock and jazz solos: over all three chords of a blues, bending or sliding through the ♯4 rather than resting on it.
Key signature 2♯ (F♯ C♯)as D major / B minor
Degrees R b3 4 #4 5 b7·Step pattern W+H – W – H – H – W+H – W
- Cut from B Aeolian: leave out its 2nd (C♯) and 6th (G), and adds the blue note, #4 (E♯).
B minor pentatonic blues on the guitar
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ShapesThe five pentatonic boxes
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Pick a position below to outline it on the neck.
in B minor pentatonic blues: playedother notes of Aeolian: not playedPlay runs up the position from its lowest note and back down; Sample melody plays a short tune using only its notes. Tap a position's name to see it on the neck.