This is one of those famous early scales that multitudes of guitarists always learn during their exploring of the lead playing.
The original major blues scale appears to be very important kind of melodic device. That’s mainly because you can really use it for a solo in colorful and various musical genres and situations.
If you want to start to learn this very important scale, you must firstly know will how to easily build this particular scale.
Also, you must figure out how you need to apply it to your own soloing ideas, and how to smoothly finger this one on your own guitar. And you also need to be provided with some samples licks and also solo examples to explore it better.
Seven Notes (Six-note scale + ♭5th degree)
This is a regular six-note scale, major blues scale is made from that minor pentatonic kind of scale with an additional ♭5th degree. The blue notes use is a very important feature of this major blues scale. Well, these blue notes are considered to be some kinds of alternative inflections.
But, this blues scale is to really something that is really not created to fit any traditional forms or definitions of some classic scales. And, at its core basics, some single type of this specific “blues scale” must be often commonly in usage over any kinds of chords or changes. And that is exactly in a regular twelve bar type of blues progression.
Structure
Well as you are able to see and hear, this blues scale has exactly 7 notes. The major type of pentatonic scale – made up completely of exactly five of the notes.
That notes are Root, then 2nd, after that 3rd then 5th, and in the end, 6th major scale notes so that are the basis for this scale.
To produce this major blues kind of scale, you must simplify previously mentioned major pentatonic one and also add very important blues note. Because this special added note can give this blues scale that very special bluesy vibe. This separates it completely melodically from all important major types of those pentatonic scales.
The ordinary diagrams show the 5 regular blues scale ways or patterns that are spread over complete and entire length of guitars neck. You can also easily notice how those different patterns can overlap and also connect with each other all the way down the neck of the guitar. The basic diagrams show the scale for the regular G major key.
Song example – House of the rising sun (Animals)
Blues kind of music got a really solid and plaintive sound that results in the regular use of both major and minor scales. That comes over the very top of those major-based kinds of chords, which are mostly dominant sevenths.
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That made the real impact in the early years of the rock music and the famous 60’s song is a prime example of that powerful influence.
Conclusion
Blues genre is an extremely important in all areas of today’s music. So, it is also considered to be the real forerunner rock and jazz too.
Also, it strongly breaks most of those tedious conventions of that theory of the classical music, which means that this scale was a part of the spontaneous historical music revolution.
