What’s on the The Blues Scale poster
The rule, 3 worked examples, and the mistake everyone makes.
- The blues scale is minor pentatonic with an added flattened fifth.
- 1 · ♭3 · 4 · ♭5 · 5 · ♭7
- A blues scale = A C D E♭ E G
- Over an A7 chord = Works, despite the ♭3 against a major 3rd
- Major blues scale = 1 2 ♭3 3 5 6
- Common mistake: Landing on the ♭5 and holding it → Use it in passing between the 4th…
The blue notes are really pitches between the cracks of a piano. Bending is how a guitar gets closer.
Questions about the The Blues Scale poster
- What’s on the The Blues Scale poster?
- The rule, 3 worked examples, and the mistake everyone makes. The blues scale is minor pentatonic with an added flattened fifth.; 1 · ♭3 · 4 · ♭5 · 5 · ♭7; A blues scale = A C D E♭ E G; Over an A7 chord = Works, despite the ♭3 against a major 3rd; Major blues scale = 1 2 ♭3 3 5 6; Common mistake: Landing on the ♭5 and holding it → Use it in passing between the 4th…. The blue notes are really pitches between the cracks of a piano. Bending is how a guitar gets closer.
- Who is the The Blues Scale poster for?
- The Blues Scale belongs to the Music section rather than to a school year, because music is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning scales & modes can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the The Blues Scale poster?
- Pass through the blue note; do not sit on it. It is a colour, not a destination. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so The Blues Scale belongs on the wall where that music work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with The Blues Scale?
- Chromatic & Whole Tone, Dorian and The Harmonic Minor sit alongside The Blues Scale in the Music section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Chromatic & Whole ToneDorianThe Harmonic Minor
- Is the The Blues Scale poster free to download and print?
- Yes. The Blues Scale downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Music section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the The Blues Scale poster print at?
- The Blues Scale is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of The Blues Scale loses nothing.Printing guide
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