Guitar scale
Bb Natural Minor (Aeolian) Guitar Scale
Bb Natural Minor (Aeolian) is a seven-note scale built from Bb, C, Db, Eb, F, Gb, and Ab. It is the 6th relative mode of Db major. It is also commonly called Bb Aeolian. Use it to study the scale's notes, interval formula, and guitar fretboard positions.
- Notes
- BbCDbEbFGbAb
- Formula
- 1 2 b3 4 5 b6 b7
- Semitones
- 0 2 3 5 7 8 10
- Parent scale
- Db major
- Also called
- Bb Aeolian
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 natural minor (aeolian) tones across standard tuning.
This same note pattern is also commonly called Bb Aeolian.
Fretboard diagram
Open this scale in the fretboard tool
Start with Bb Natural Minor (Aeolian) loaded, then adjust tuning, labels, colors, fret count, and orientation.
Open in interactive fretboardCommon chords and contexts
- Use Bb natural minor over Bb minor, Bbm7, and minor-key progressions.
- It is the standard minor scale sound and the 6th mode of its relative major scale.