7b13 Pentatonic scale
All five notes belong to a single whole tone scale, since every degree sits an even number of semitones above the root.
- Used for
- Jazz solos over dominant chords with a flat thirteenth.
- Formula
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Steps W W 4 semitones W W Semitones 2-2-4-2-2 Degrees 1 2 3 ♭6 ♭7 - Relationships
- Rotating it reaches the two whole tone pentatonics and the Dominant ♯11 Pentatonic, all of them drawn from the same six-note parent.
7b13 Pentatonic in all 12 keys
Pick a key to see it on the piano, or jump straight to the guitar view.
- C C 7b13 Pentatonic scale piano guitar
- D flat Db 7b13 Pentatonic scale piano guitar
- D D 7b13 Pentatonic scale piano guitar
- E flat Eb 7b13 Pentatonic scale piano guitar
- E E 7b13 Pentatonic scale piano guitar
- F F 7b13 Pentatonic scale piano guitar
- G flat Gb 7b13 Pentatonic scale piano guitar
- G G 7b13 Pentatonic scale piano guitar
- A flat Ab 7b13 Pentatonic scale piano guitar
- A A 7b13 Pentatonic scale piano guitar
- B flat Bb 7b13 Pentatonic scale piano guitar
- B B 7b13 Pentatonic scale piano guitar
