A Major Blues Scale — Bass
A Major Blues on bass: notes A, B, C, C#, E, F# — free scale chart, no sign-up. Major pentatonic plus a passing b3 that slides into the major 3rd — a brighter, country- and gospel-leaning cousin of the minor blues scale.
Bass · 4-string, tuned low to high: E, A, D, G. 24 frets.
- E string: fret 0 E (5), fret 2 F# (6), fret 5 A (root), fret 7 B (2), fret 8 C (flat 3), fret 9 C# (3), fret 12 E (5), fret 14 F# (6), fret 17 A (root), fret 19 B (2), fret 20 C (flat 3), fret 21 C# (3), fret 24 E (5).
- A string: fret 0 A (root), fret 2 B (2), fret 3 C (flat 3), fret 4 C# (3), fret 7 E (5), fret 9 F# (6), fret 12 A (root), fret 14 B (2), fret 15 C (flat 3), fret 16 C# (3), fret 19 E (5), fret 21 F# (6), fret 24 A (root).
- D string: fret 2 E (5), fret 4 F# (6), fret 7 A (root), fret 9 B (2), fret 10 C (flat 3), fret 11 C# (3), fret 14 E (5), fret 16 F# (6), fret 19 A (root), fret 21 B (2), fret 22 C (flat 3), fret 23 C# (3).
- G string: fret 2 A (root), fret 4 B (2), fret 5 C (flat 3), fret 6 C# (3), fret 9 E (5), fret 11 F# (6), fret 14 A (root), fret 16 B (2), fret 17 C (flat 3), fret 18 C# (3), fret 21 E (5), fret 23 F# (6).
Notes in the A major blues scale
The A major blues scale contains 6 notes: A, B, C, C#, E, F#. Its scale degrees are R · 2 · b3 · 3 · 5 · 6.
| Degree | Note |
|---|---|
| R | A |
| 2 | B |
| b3 | C |
| 3 | C# |
| 5 | E |
| 6 | F# |
A major blues on bass
Open this scale in ScaleSpace to see every one of those notes mapped across the fretboard, with the roots marked and each note labelled by name or scale degree. You can hear any note, overlay a second scale to see which notes the two share, switch to an alternate tuning, and export a printable PDF.