Guitar scale
C Melodic Minor Guitar Scale
C Melodic Minor is a seven-note scale built from C, D, Eb, F, G, A, and B. Use it to study the scale's notes, interval formula, and guitar fretboard positions.
- Notes
- CDEbFGAB
- 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 C root notes in the fretboard view, while circular markers represent the other notes in the scale.
Use the interactive fretboard to locate the C root notes and connect the remaining melodic minor tones across standard tuning.
Fretboard diagram
Open this scale in the fretboard tool
Start with C Melodic Minor loaded, then adjust tuning, labels, colors, fret count, and orientation.
Open in interactive fretboardCommon chords and contexts
- Use C melodic minor over CmMaj7 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.