![]() ![]() That’s exactly what this note is- a passing tone. These are chromatic notes that are used to walk up to other notes in the scale. Something common in Blues and Jazz is to use a chromatic “passing tone”, also called a passing note. This note is the “Blues note” and makes this scale a Blues scale. The note that makes this scale a Blues scale instead of a minor Pentatonic scale is the 4 th fret on the 5 th string. This is intentional to make the chromatic section much easier to play. You'll notice that the fingering I called out uses the 1st finger twice in a row on the 5th string. ![]() That’s technically 7 note’s you’re playing, but since the last note is essentially starting the scale over we don’t include it when we say that there are 6 notes in the scale. The G Blues scale starts on a G note (6 th string, 3 rd fret) and ends on a G an octave up.
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