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