The blues scale in any key — The Common Tone

Piano

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Use − under ♭5 to hear minor pentatonic; + adds it back and plays the blues scale. A removed note stays faint and crossed in its original position. Changing home note keeps that choice.

Click any written note to hear it. Left/Right moves and auditions; Enter/Space repeats. Degree labels keep the natural-minor framework; ♭5 is the added pitch. The natural sign on 5 cancels an altered spelling.

Play sounds the remaining scale; Up & down repeats the top note. Stop ends playback. These are piano pitches illustrating a scale pattern, not vocal or guitar inflection.

Piano marks the written scale tones gold and the added pitch blue. Every key can sound, including removed notes and other octaves. Locate moves only the piano. Text version lists the notes and steps.

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