piano scale
G blues
G1B♭♭3C4D♭♭5D5F♭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
GW+HB♭WCHD♭HDW+HFWG
What is true of it
G blues is G, B♭, C, D♭, D and F, and back to G.
Its steps are W+H – W – H – H – W+H – W, where W is a whole step and H a half.
Chords made only of these notes
Found by testing every chord in the catalogue against these 6 sounds, not chosen.
Other scales on G
G major pentatonicpentatonicG minor pentatonicpentatonicG major bluespentatonicG majormajorG natural minorminorG harmonic minorminor
C bluesC♯ bluesD♭ bluesD bluesD♯ bluesE♭ bluesE bluesF bluesall 374