A Major bluesScale
Formula
A Major blues on the chromatic circle
A Major blues is one of the pentatonic & blues scales. Pick another note on the circle to open the scale that starts there.
A Major blues across the fretboard
Every note of the scale up to the 16th fret, named by its degree. The root is a ring. Step through the five CAGED positions one at a time in the scale library.
Where A Major blues fits
Country, western swing and jump blues: the major pentatonic with the ♭3 slid into the 3rd. Sweet over the I and V of a major blues.
Major blues scale in every key
A Major blues scale questions
What notes are in the A Major blues scale?
A B C C♯ E F♯. As degrees from the root: 1 2 ♭3 3 5 6.
What is the A Major blues scale formula?
1 2 ♭3 3 5 6, or in steps between the notes, W H H 1½ W 1½ (W is a whole step of two frets, H a half step of one fret, 1½ three frets).
How do you play the A Major blues scale on guitar?
This page draws every note of A Major blues up to the 16th fret, each named by its degree with the root as a ring. To learn it a few frets at a time, open it in the scale library and step through its five CAGED positions, from the G shape to the E shape to the D shape to the C shape to the A shape.
When is the A Major blues scale used?
Country, western swing and jump blues: the major pentatonic with the ♭3 slid into the 3rd. Sweet over the I and V of a major blues.