guitar scale
B blues
B1D♭3E4F♭5F♯5A♭7
Minor pentatonic with one note squeezed in between the fourth and the fifth. It is written as a flattened fifth, so the fifth letter carries both of them and the fourth keeps its own.
Written out
Every accidental is written in, rather than left to a key signature, so the letters can be read one at a time.
The step pattern
BW+HDWEHFHF♯W+HAWB
What is true of it
B blues is B, D, E, F, F♯ and A, and back to B.
Its steps are W+H – W – H – H – W+H – W, where W is a whole step and H a half.
Across the first twelve frets of the guitar its notes fall in 41 places, which is what makes a scale a shape rather than a list.
Chords made only of these notes
Found by testing every chord in the catalogue against these 6 sounds, not chosen.
Other scales on B
B major pentatonicpentatonicB minor pentatonicpentatonicB major bluespentatonicB majormajorB natural minorminorB harmonic minorminor
C bluesC♯ bluesD♭ bluesD bluesD♯ bluesE♭ bluesE bluesF bluesall 374