Find the Blues Scale: Pentatonic Plus the Blue Note

The short answer: Find the Blues Scale drills the minor pentatonic with one note added — the ♭5 "blue note" (1 ♭3 4 ♭5 5 ♭7). That extra chromatic note is what makes a line sound unmistakably like the blues. Key plus zone; find it, fast.

What the game is

You get a key and a zone and find the six notes — the familiar pentatonic plus the blue note wedged between the 4 and 5. The game trains you to see exactly where that extra note slots into shapes you may already know.

What it teaches

• Where the ♭5 blue note sits inside the pentatonic boxes.
• How to use it as a passing tone, not a landing note.
• Blues-scale shapes across the neck.

Why it's cool

One note is the entire difference between a plain pentatonic run and a lick that sounds like the blues. It is the cheapest, most effective upgrade to a soloing vocabulary there is.

Where to start

Read the blues scale and the blue note. Know the minor pentatonic first — the blues scale is just one note more.