Tuning-specific scale diagram

Eb Minor Blues Scale in 7-String Standard Tuning

Eb Minor Blues Scale in 7-String Standard Tuning shows the same eb minor blues scale pitch classes across 7 strings tuned B E A D G B E. The seventh string extends the pattern below a six-string layout while keeping the upper strings familiar.

Scale notes: Eb, Gb, Ab, Bbb, Bb, Db
Formula: 1 b3 4 b5 5 b7
Semitones: 0 3 5 6 7 10
Tuning: B E A D G B E
Strings: 7
Open pitch range: B1 to E4
24-fret range: B1 to E6

Open strings and root positions

1 of the 7 open strings belong to Eb Minor Blues Scale: string 5 Bbb (b5). None of those open-string tones is the Eb root, so the root must be fretted on every string.

String 5Bbbb5

First root on each string

String 7Fret 4

String 6Fret 11

String 5Fret 6

String 4Fret 1

String 3Fret 8

String 2Fret 4

String 1Fret 11

Low-string pattern

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

Fret 2Dbb7

Fret 4Eb1

Fret 7Gbb3

Fret 9Ab4

Fret 10Bbbb5

Fret 11Bb5

Practice this tuning-specific layout

Play Eb Minor Blues Scale on the low B string at frets 2, 4, 7, 9, 10, and 11, saying each note name and degree aloud.
Build a phrase that lets Bbb on open string 5 ring, then connect it to the nearest Eb root and two other scale tones.
Connect the Eb root positions on strings 7 through 1 at frets 4, 11, 6, 1, 8, 4, and 11, adding the nearest scale tone between each pair of roots.