Guitar scale
Bb Phrygian Guitar Scale
Bb Phrygian is a seven-note scale built from Bb, B, Db, Eb, F, Gb, and Ab. It is the 3rd relative mode of Gb major. Use it to study the scale's notes, interval formula, and guitar fretboard positions.
- Notes
- BbBDbEbFGbAb
- Formula
- 1 b2 b3 4 5 b6 b7
- Semitones
- 0 1 3 5 7 8 10
- Parent scale
- Gb 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 phrygian tones across standard tuning.
Fretboard diagram
Open this scale in the fretboard tool
Start with Bb Phrygian loaded, then adjust tuning, labels, colors, fret count, and orientation.
Open in interactive fretboardCommon chords and contexts
- Use Bb Phrygian over dark Bb minor vamps when the flat 2 is part of the sound.
- It fits heavier rock, metal, Spanish-flavored ideas, and modal minor progressions.