Tuning-specific scale diagram

Bb Minor Blues Scale in 8-String Standard Tuning

Bb Minor Blues Scale in 8-String Standard Tuning shows the same bb minor blues scale pitch classes across 8 strings tuned F# B E A D G B E. The seventh and eighth strings extend the pattern into the lower register for wider-range riffs and chord voicings.

Scale notes: Bb, Db, Eb, Fb, F, Ab
Formula: 1 b3 4 b5 5 b7
Semitones: 0 3 5 6 7 10
Tuning: F# B E A D G B E
Strings: 8
Open pitch range: F#1 to E4
24-fret range: F#1 to E6

Open strings and root positions

2 of the 8 open strings belong to Bb Minor Blues Scale: string 6 Fb (b5) and string 1 Fb (b5). None of those open-string tones is the Bb root, so the root must be fretted on every string.

String 6Fbb5

String 1Fbb5

First root on each string

String 8Fret 4

String 7Fret 11

String 6Fret 6

String 5Fret 1

String 4Fret 8

String 3Fret 3

String 2Fret 11

String 1Fret 6

Low-string pattern

On the lowest F# string, the first-octave scale pattern falls at frets 2, 4, 7, 9, 10, and 11, with the Bb root at fret 4. On the highest E string, the first Bb is at fret 6.

Fret 2Abb7

Fret 4Bb1

Fret 7Dbb3

Fret 9Eb4

Fret 10Fbb5

Fret 11F5

Practice this tuning-specific layout

Play Bb Minor Blues Scale on the low F# string at frets 2, 4, 7, 9, 10, and 11, saying each note name and degree aloud.
Build a phrase that lets Fb on open string 6 ring, then connect it to the nearest Bb root and two other scale tones.
Connect the Bb root positions on strings 8 through 1 at frets 4, 11, 6, 1, 8, 3, 11, and 6, adding the nearest scale tone between each pair of roots.