Guitar scale
Bb Melodic Minor Guitar Scale
Bb Melodic Minor is a seven-note scale built from Bb, C, Db, Eb, F, G, and A. Use it to study the scale's notes, interval formula, and guitar fretboard positions.
- Notes
- BbCDbEbFGA
- Formula
- 1 2 b3 4 5 6 7
- Semitones
- 0 2 3 5 7 9 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 melodic minor tones across standard tuning.
Fretboard diagram
Open this scale in the fretboard tool
Start with Bb Melodic Minor loaded, then adjust tuning, labels, colors, fret count, and orientation.
Open in interactive fretboardCommon chords and contexts
- Use Bb melodic minor over BbmMaj7 sounds or modern minor-key harmony.
- It is common in jazz minor vocabulary and gives minor chords a smoother major 6 and major 7 color.