Fretwork

A Blues scale

The minor pentatonic with the flat fifth added — the blue note. It wants to be passed through rather than landed on.

Notes ACDD#EG
Degrees 1♭34♭55♭7
Intervals0 semitones · 3 semitones · 5 semitones · 6 semitones · 7 semitones · 10 semitones
The whole neck
Note names Scale degrees Filled markers are the root.
135791215EADGBEEGACDD#EGACDD#EGACDD#EGACDD#EGACDD#EGACDD#EGACDEGACDD#EG
Positions

Each of these fits under one hand without shifting. Learn one until you can play it without looking before starting the next.

Open position

135EADGBEEGAACDDD#EGGACCDD#EEGA

Position at fret 4

579EADGBEACDD#EGACDD#ED#EGAC

Position at fret 11

121517EADGBED#EGACDD#EGACDD#D#EG

Other keys