Guitar scale
Bb Harmonic Minor Guitar Scale
Bb Harmonic Minor is a seven-note scale built from Bb, C, Db, Eb, F, Gb, and A. Use it to study the scale's notes, interval formula, and guitar fretboard positions.
- Notes
- BbCDbEbFGbA
- Formula
- 1 2 b3 4 5 b6 7
- Semitones
- 0 2 3 5 7 8 11
How to read this scale
The notes are shown as pitch classes first. Square markers represent Bb root notes in the fretboard view, while circular markers represent the other notes in the scale.
Use the interactive fretboard to locate the Bb root notes and connect the remaining harmonic minor tones across standard tuning.
Fretboard diagram
Open this scale in the fretboard tool
Start with Bb Harmonic Minor loaded, then adjust tuning, labels, colors, fret count, and orientation.
Open in interactive fretboardCommon chords and contexts
- Use Bb harmonic minor in minor keys where the V chord resolves strongly back to Bb minor.
- The major 7 creates a strong leading tone and gives the scale its classical and neoclassical minor sound.