B Rock 'n' Roll Scale — Baritone Ukulele

The B Rock 'n' Roll pattern on DGBE strings — see it, hear it, drill it.

The B Rock 'n' Roll scale has 6 notes per octave and belongs to the blues family. Here it is mapped onto the Baritone Ukulele's DGBE strings, position by position, with the root highlighted so the pattern anchors to B wherever you play it.

Major pentatonic with a b3 rubbed against the natural 3 — bright and bouncy with a bluesy smirk. Playful, swinging, and built for boogie riffs.

Heard in: Fifties rock, rockabilly, boogie-woogie, Chuck Berry-style riffs, and jump blues.

On the Baritone Ukulele's linear DGBE tuning the pattern climbs string to string in pitch order, so runs flow straight across the neck.

Play each position slowly against the audio until the shape and the sound lock together, then take it to the progressions in B to use it over real changes.