piano scale
A♯ blues
A♯1C♯♭3D♯4E♭5E♯5G♯♭7
Minor pentatonic with one note squeezed in between the fourth and the fifth. It is written as a flattened fifth, so the fifth letter carries both of them and the fourth keeps its own.
The same sounds spelled from the other side are B♭ blues.
Written out
Every accidental is written in, rather than left to a key signature, so the letters can be read one at a time.
The step pattern
A♯W+HC♯WD♯HEHE♯W+HG♯WA♯
What is true of it
A♯ blues is A♯, C♯, D♯, E, E♯ and G♯, and back to A♯.
Its steps are W+H – W – H – H – W+H – W, where W is a whole step and H a half.
Chords made only of these notes
Found by testing every chord in the catalogue against these 6 sounds, not chosen.
Other scales on A♯
A♯ major pentatonicpentatonicA♯ minor pentatonicpentatonicA♯ major bluespentatonicA♯ majormajorA♯ natural minorminorA♯ harmonic minorminor
C bluesC♯ bluesD♭ bluesD bluesD♯ bluesE♭ bluesE bluesF bluesall 374