Open E left-handed scale chart
C Blues Left-Handed Guitar Scale Chart
Blues scale notes, mirrored lefty fretboard positions and standard tab in Open E.
C Blues in Open E tuning gives you the notes C, D#, F, F#, G, A# across a mirrored left-handed fretboard. Open E is big, direct and highly resonant, which suits left-handed players who want open-string power without losing a major tonal centre. Because the b5 often gets hit with attitude rather than precision, use the mirrored layout to keep the visual target honest before adding aggressive articulation.
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Charts are mirrored for left-handed players. Standard tablature below stays unchanged because tab does not flip with handedness.
Primary Chart
Scale View
Full neck left-handed mirror view. Use Position 1 first, then move across the smaller windows.
0-4 frets in mirrored left-handed view
2-6 frets in mirrored left-handed view
11-15 frets in mirrored left-handed view
14-18 frets in mirrored left-handed view
18-22 frets in mirrored left-handed view
Standard Reference
Tab & Shape Readout
Position 1 Tab
E|------------------------------------1--2--3--| B|------------------------------1--4-----------| G#|------------------------2--4-----------------| E|---------------1--2--3-----------------------| B|---------1--4--------------------------------| E|1--2--3--------------------------------------|
0-4 frets • 15 note position run
Position 1 Tab
E|------------------------------------1--2--3--| B|------------------------------1--4-----------| G#|------------------------2--4-----------------| E|---------------1--2--3-----------------------| B|---------1--4--------------------------------| E|1--2--3--------------------------------------|
0-4 frets • 15 note position run
Position 2 Tab
E|------------------------------------2--3--6--| B|------------------------------4--6-----------| G#|------------------------2--4-----------------| E|---------------2--3--6-----------------------| B|---------4--6--------------------------------| E|2--3--6--------------------------------------|
2-6 frets • 15 note position run
Position 3 Tab
E|------------------------------------------11-13-14-15-| B|------------------------------------11-13-------------| G#|------------------------------11-14-------------------| E|------------------11-13-14-15-------------------------| B|------------11-13-------------------------------------| E|11-13-14-15-------------------------------------------|
11-15 frets • 18 note position run
Position 4 Tab
E|------------------------------------14-15-18-| B|------------------------------16-18----------| G#|------------------------14-16----------------| E|---------------14-15-18----------------------| B|---------16-18-------------------------------| E|14-15-18-------------------------------------|
14-18 frets • 15 note position run
Position 5 Tab
E|---------------------------------------18-20-| B|---------------------------18----19-20-------| G#|---------------------19-21----22-------------| E|---------------18-20-------------------------| B|------18-19-20-------------------------------| E|18-20----------------------------------------|
18-22 frets • 15 note position run
Context
How To Use This Page
Blues feels gritty, tense and expressive and is useful for turnarounds, greasy phrasing and blues-rock solo work.
The blue note still sits in the same fret relationship shown in standard tab, even though the fretboard chart is mirrored for left-handed reading.
Treat the b5 as a passing colour and resolve it deliberately
Open E feels bright, ringing and slide-ready. It makes bright rhythm guitar and open slide vocabulary feel immediate.
- C
- D#
- F
- F#
- G
- A#
Next Step
Matching Left-Handed Chords
These chord pages use the same tuning and key centre so you can move straight from a scale chart into left-handed rhythm work.
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