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Position 5Right hand

A Major Blues Scale notes: A B C C# E F# (R 2 b3 3 5 6). See all 5 positions on an interactive guitar fretboard and hear each one played. Free, with 20,000+ shapes.

A Major Blues
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Tunings

Current tuning: Standard

Note: Scale, chord and arpeggio positions are worked out for every tuning, so some may stretch wider or be fewer than in Standard. Learning and Song shapes are written for Standard, so those pages always show Standard tuning.

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AMajor Blues Scale
Notes

A, B, C, C#, E, F#

Degrees

R, 2, b3, 3, 5, 6

Intervals

R, 2, 1, 1, 3, 2

Playback settings

90 BPM

A Major Blues Scale

The Major Blues Scale is the Pentatonic Major Scale with one added note, the flat 3rd, which slides or bends up into the major 3rd. That rub between the two thirds is the sound of country and Southern rock licks, sweeter than the minor blues. Use it over major and dominant 7th chords, and pass through the flat 3rd rather than landing on it.

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