Scale family
D♭ major blues
Six notes: D♭ E♭ F♭ F A♭ B♭. D♭ major pentatonic with one note added, the blue note F♭.
C♯ and D♭ are the same pitch. This scale is written as D♭ major blues because the key it comes from needs fewer accidentals as D♭ than as C♯.
- Notes
- D♭ E♭ F♭ F A♭ B♭
- 1 2 ♭3 3 5 6
- Same notes as
- B♭ blues Its relative
- Without the blue note
- D♭ major pentatonic Its pentatonic
- Root, D♭
- Notes of the box
- Notes of the chord you're on
- Blue note
Jam along
The 12-bar blues in D♭
Play along with a repeating twelve-bar blues. The neck highlights the notes in your box that belong to the current chord.
The blue note
Hear what the blue note adds
Put F♭ between E♭ and F and the major pentatonic becomes the D♭ major blues scale. Try sliding through it into a neighbouring note.
Pentatonic
- D♭
- E♭
- F
- A♭
- B♭
Major blues
- D♭
- E♭
- F♭
- F
- A♭
- B♭
Hear both
Exercises
Five drills, with a click
Start in box 1 and play along with the metronome. Follow the highlighted notes on the neck above.
- Box 1, up and downEvery note once, low to high and back. Say the note names.70 bpmLevel 1
- Connect box 1 to box 2Up box 1, slide to box 2, back down. The shared notes are the bridge.70 bpmLevel 1
- Groups of threeThree notes at a time, one step up each time, through box 1.80 bpmLevel 2
- Hit the chord's notesOver the 12-bar, land on the lit notes as each chord changes.90 bpmLevel 2
- Call and responseHear a two-bar phrase, then answer it in the gap.80 bpmLevel 2