E flat blues scale

The E flat blues scale has six notes: E♭ – G♭ – A♭ – B𝄫 – B♭ – D♭. It is the minor pentatonic plus one extra note, the blue note (the diminished fifth), which gives it the blues sound.

On the guitar neck

Every note of the scale up to the 15th fret. The coloured ones are the root.

Notes

Note	Interval
E♭	Root
G♭	Minor third
A♭	Perfect fourth
B𝄫	Diminished fifth
B♭	Perfect fifth
D♭	Minor seventh

Which chords it works over

Over a blues in E♭ (with E♭7) and over the chords of E flat minor.

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