THE BLUES SCALE (Major and Minor and other scales for blues)

This is just a quick summary post for all resources relating to THE BLUES SCALE, Major and Minor as well as a few other scales that you might like to try in your blues playing.



Just click on the links below for resources on the individual scales






BLUES SCALES

BLUES SCALES: Minor and Major Blues scales mapped out in all positions, as intervals and dots.

MINOR BLUES SCALES AS THREE OCTAVE, THREE NOTE PER STRING PATTERNS.

THREE NOTE PER STRING MINOR BLUES SCALES. A summary

MINOR BLUES SCALE: Large diagrams showing all the positions slotting together over the neck.

MAJOR BLUES SCALE: Large diagrams showing all the positions slotting together over the neck.

PRINTER FRIENDLY A4 SIZED VERSIONS OF THE PREVIOUS TWO. 


THE VOODOO BLUES SCALE

THE VOODOO BLUES SCALE.

VOODOO BLUES- 3NPS Three octave patterns.



THE DOMINANT PENTATONIC SCALE

THE DOMINANT PENTATONIC SCALE. 

THE DORIAN PENTATONIC SCALE- Mode 4 of the Dominant Pentatonic Scale. 

THE GREEK MODES

This is just a quick summary post for all resources relating to Greek Modes.



Just click on the links below for resources on the individual scales









MAJOR/MINOR/MODES

MODES: A Brief Summary. (Includes note per string shapes, with modal spellings and triads)

THE IONIAN MODE or MAJOR SCALE

THE DORIAN MODE  

THE PHRYGIAN MODE 

THE LYDIAN MODE. 

THE MIXOLYDIAN MODE. 

THE AEOLIAN MODE OR NATURAL MINOR SCALE. 

THE LOCRIAN MODE 

MODES: Three octave scale shape summary. 

Aeolian Mode or The Natural Minor Scale

Today's lucky scale is The Aeolian Mode, also know as The Natural Minor Scale.

It is made up of the intervals: 1,2,b3,4,5,b6,b7.

And....

That's it!

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One more time... With feeling

Some more diagrams of the Major and Minor blues scales.

This time you get all the information from the last couple of jumbo sized diagrams nicely reduced to A4 size for easy printing...

Well unless there is something resizing these images between me pressing send and them getting displayed here.

It should all be fine though, I'm sure.

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ROB SILVER'S LIST OF FREE GUITAR DIAGRAMS

 

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Blues scales, mapped out in all positions...

I'm feeling a bit down, so here's some diagrams of the Minor and Major Blues Scales for you all to amuse yourselves with.

I'm getting really fond of the Major Blues Scale, so that's how I'm going to be filling up my evenings this week.

It's really cold out side still, but the snow seems to have gone for now.

I really should be demoing guitars at a sunny music show somewhere instead of trudging through the snow every morning this week on my way to a tedious trade show, but hey, what can you do...



EDIT:

All this historical angst is great and all, but I've just got some awesome guitar diagram software so I'm updating all the older stuff to sexy new diagrams. I'm editing things at the old urls like this because I've linked to the resources in loads of places.
Don't forget that there is a ton of FREE stuff on my site already and this new software has inspired me to go crazy moving forward.



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OK, now on with the Blues Scales,

(Rob Silver 14/04/12)


EDIT 2021:

There are some fresher possibly clearer versions of these diagrams available on the blog CLICK THE LINKS BELOW:

MAJOR BLUES SCALE  and  MINOR BLUES SCALE 

There are a load of other exciting scales for blues on the blog. Try having a look at:

MINOR BLUES SCALE ADD 3

MINOR PENTATONIC SCALE ADD 3

(This one is my favourite)

THE VOODOO BLUES SCALE

PENTATONIC AND BLUES SCALES FOR GUITAR 

PENTATONIC AND BLUES SCALES FOR LEFT HANDED GUITAR

PENTATONIC AND BLUES SCALES FOR SEVEN STRING GUITAR

PENTATONIC AND BLUES SCALES FOR EIGHT STRING GUITAR

BLUES SCALES

(If you have scrolled down this far remember that there's loads more useful Blues and Pentatonic scale variations to play with for FREE!)

BLUES SCALES: Minor and Major Blues scales mapped out in all positions, as intervals and dots.

MINOR BLUES SCALES AS THREE OCTAVE, THREE NOTE PER STRING PATTERNS.

THREE NOTE PER STRING MINOR BLUES SCALES. A summary

MINOR BLUES SCALE: Large diagrams showing all the positions slotting together over the neck.

MAJOR BLUES SCALE: Large diagrams showing all the positions slotting together over the neck.

PRINTER FRIENDLY A4 SIZED VERSIONS OF THE PREVIOUS TWO. 

HYBRID MAJOR AND MINOR BLUES SCALES 

MINOR PENTATONIC ADD 3

MINOR PENTATONIC ADD 3 (3 Octave 3 NPS)

MINOR BLUES SCALE ADD 3 ADD 7

MINOR BLUES SCALE ADD 3 ADD7 (3NPS OPTIONS)

Free Downloadable Pentatonic Scale Diagrams

Free downloadable Pentatonic Scale diagrams...

I've started writing up all the notes I give to guitar students so rather than getting a photocopy of something I wrote in the back of an envelope when I was 19 and figuring all this stuff out myself I can just print off or hyperlink to resources when I need to give stuff out

Since I'm going to be typing up all this stuff anyway, I guess I may as well stick it all online free for anyone who's interested.

There will be a lot more stuff to come, so these basic diagrams showing where your fingers should go when you play the Major and Minor Pentatonic scales will be the first of many free resources to come.

If these diagrams don't make any sense to you, don't worry CLICK HERE FOR A A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO THE PENTATONIC SCALE.

There is a much more thorough introduction to Pentatonic Scales on the way shortly, but once that is done, then I don't really care what order  write the stuff up in, so if there is anything that anyone would like some help with guitar wise then I'm open to suggestions, so leave a comment here or on FACEBOOK and if I have some stuff on it, I'll put that up next.

 EDIT:
I'm updating all the older free stuff on the blog to sexy new diagrams. I'm editing things at the old urls like this because I've linked to the resources in loads of places.
Don't forget that there is a ton of FREE stuff on my site already and this new software has inspired me to go crazy moving forward.
The widget that used to diplay them as a downloadable pdf kept crashing, so they are here as jpegs instead.

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