A Blues — Jacob Collier 5-String

A Blues is 6 notes per octave (blues family), drawn here as position boxes on the Jacob Collier 5-String's DAEAD grid with the root flagged in each — learn one box deeply, then let the overlaps carry you into the next.

The minor pentatonic with a b5 "blue note" wedged in — that one extra note adds grit, tension, and a sly, vocal quality. Tough, expressive, and unmistakably bluesy.

Heard in: Blues, rock, jazz, rhythm and blues, and boogie-woogie — Delta and Chicago blues, Hendrix, Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughan.

The DAEAD tuning mirrors around its middle E string, so a box does not keep its shape as it crosses the centre the way it would on a guitar — these maps draw every position where it actually falls.

Play each box top to bottom until the roots feel like home base, then practice crossing between boxes mid-phrase — neck freedom is exactly that crossing, nothing more.