D Minor bluesScale
Formula
D Minor blues on the chromatic circle
D Minor blues has the notes of F Major blues, started from D. Pick another note on the circle to open the scale that starts there.
D Minor 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 D Minor blues fits
Blues and blues-rock soloing: the minor pentatonic with the ♭5 blue note. Played over every chord of a 12-bar blues.
Minor blues scale in every key
D Minor blues scale questions
What notes are in the D Minor blues scale?
D F G A♭ A C. As degrees from the root: 1 ♭3 4 ♭5 5 ♭7.
What is the D Minor blues scale formula?
1 ♭3 4 ♭5 5 ♭7, or in steps between the notes, 1½ W H H 1½ W (W is a whole step of two frets, H a half step of one fret, 1½ three frets).
How do you play the D Minor blues scale on guitar?
This page draws every note of D Minor 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 C shape to the A shape to the G shape to the E shape to the D shape.
When is the D Minor blues scale used?
Blues and blues-rock soloing: the minor pentatonic with the ♭5 blue note. Played over every chord of a 12-bar blues.