Rock 'n' Roll Scale

The Rock 'n' Roll scale is a 6-note scale in the blues family. Major pentatonic with a b3 rubbed against the natural 3 — bright and bouncy with a bluesy smirk. Playful, swinging, and built for boogie riffs. Heard in: Fifties rock, rockabilly, boogie-woogie, Chuck Berry-style riffs, and jump blues. Like every scale, it is defined by the semitone distances between its degrees, so the same pattern produces the scale from any starting note. Pick a tonic below to see the notes it contains.