Blues pentatonic

1. What is the Blues note in the pentatonic scale?
2. What are the notes in the blues scale?
3. Is there a major pentatonic blues scale?

What is the Blues note in the pentatonic scale?

The blues scale (or Pentablues) is the pentatonic scale plus one note. This note became known as the “blue note“, and is the flat fifth in the case of the minor pentatonic, or the flat third in the case of the major pentatonic.

What are the notes in the blues scale?

In relation to the Major scale the notes of the Blues scale are : 1 - b3 - 4 - b5 - 5 - b7 - 1. The b3, b5 and b7 notes of the scale (for C Blues scale : Eb, Gb and Bb) are the so called blue notes of the scale.

Is there a major pentatonic blues scale?

Major Blues Scale Construction

The major pentatonic scale is made up of five of those notes (1, 2, 3, 5, and 6 of the major scale). To produce a major blues scale, you simply take the major pentatonic scale and add in a blue note, the b3 of the key.