Guitar scale
Bb Mixolydian Guitar Scale
Bb Mixolydian is a seven-note scale built from Bb, C, D, Eb, F, G, and Ab. It is the 5th relative mode of Eb major. Use it to study the scale's notes, interval formula, and guitar fretboard positions.
- Notes
- BbCDEbFGAb
- Formula
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 b7
- Semitones
- 0 2 4 5 7 9 10
- Parent scale
- Eb major
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 mixolydian tones across standard tuning.
Fretboard diagram
Open this scale in the fretboard tool
Start with Bb Mixolydian loaded, then adjust tuning, labels, colors, fret count, and orientation.
Open in interactive fretboardCommon chords and contexts
- Use Bb Mixolydian over Bb7 dominant chords and major blues progressions.
- The flat 7 makes it useful for rock, blues, funk, country, and dominant-chord vamps.