Blues Scale - Brand New Invention - Super Blues in E
NEW BLUES SCALE BREAKTHROUGH
The standard blues scale has been around for quite some time, also the country blues scale, the one that is really a C# blues scale played over songs in the key of E.
I’m reasonably confident that I have invented a new scale that is highly useable, easy to play and is more flexible over a lot of songs.
When you play the standard blues scale, the second one on my TAB and music dots chart, it sometimes sounds too blues too strong. An alternative is what I personally call the Country Blues Scale, the third one on my TAB and music notation. The Country Blues Scale is fantastic, sounds great over some tunes but if you look and listen to it closely it is minus the 7th (really flattened 7th) .
I woke up about five this morning and had a brain wave, a moment of inspiration and I thought ‘ What if I take the Country Blues Scale, remove the 6th (the C sharp) and replace it with the 7th instead.
Why oh why have I never thought of it before and why on earth have I never seen it over 38 years of playing guitar?
Is it because we often miss the simple and obvious.
So the notes are E, F sharp , G natural, G sharp, B and D natural.
Yes we could create hybrids of this but this is a great starting point and I’ll be adding information in the near future on how to use it intelligenty, it comfortably sits over chord one of an E blues, the E7 chord.
I decided to call it the Super Blues Scale at this point, but may change it later.
To download this scale click: Super Blues Scale in E
