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Hello,

Attached is a fretboard showing the location of the notes of the C Blues Scale. Blues Scale is a Pentatonic Minor scale with an added 4 sharp. It is used for rock and blues. For more details see Doug Beaumier's "Rock & Blues" course. It had never occurred to me to play without pedals until I checked out his course. He shows a "Rock Slide Positions in C" which is a subset of this one, but he also adds the D natural. Here is the Scale:
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The C "Blues Scale" - C,D#,F,F#,G,Bb
Shown using no Pedals.

Op 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
1--F#---G---------------Bb--------C--------------D#---------F----F#
2--D#---------F----F#---G--------------Bb--------C---------------D#
3-------------Bb--------C--------------D#--------F-----F#---G------
4-------F-----F#---G--------------Bb--------C---------------D#-----
5-------C---------------D#--------F----F#---G---------------Bb-----
6-------------Bb--------C--------------D#--------F-----F#---G------
7--F#---G---------------Bb--------C--------------D#---------F----F#
8-------F-----F#---G--------------Bb--------C---------------D#-----
9-------D#---------F----F#---G--------------Bb---------C-----------
10------C---------------D#--------F----F#---G---------------Bb-----
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I like to lower my E strings to D# and lower my 2nd and 9th strings to C#. That puts every string on the 4th fret into the blues scale.

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Bobby Lee www.b0b.com/products
Sierra Session S-12 E9th, Speedy West D-10, Sierra S-8 Lap