About the B Bebop Melodic Minor scale
B Bebop Melodic Minor is used for bebop solos over minor and minor-major chords. Think of it as a melodic minor with a chromatic passing tone added. It is B Diminished with the fifth raised.
Its notes are B, C♯, D, E, F♯, G, G♯, and A♯. The formula is W H W W H H W H.
Also called Minor Six Diminished and Barry Harris Minor Sixth.
This mode shares E, D, G, and B with the guitar's open strings. A guitarist finds the lowest B at the 2nd fret of the A string. Placed at the second fret, a capo lets B Bebop Melodic Minor be played with A-shape fingerings.
Positions
Playable shapes for this scale up the neck. Tap any note to hear it.
8-position system
8 four-fret boxes, one per scale degree, each a single hand position with almost no shifting. The jazz and classical way, from William Leavitt's Berklee method.
Notes and intervals
| 1 | BB | Root |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | C#C♯ | Major 2nd |
| 3 | DD | Minor 3rd |
| 4 | EE | Perfect 4th |
| 5 | F#F♯ | Perfect 5th |
| 6 | GG | Augmented 5th |
| 7 | G#G♯ | Major 6th |
| 8 | A#A♯ | Major 7th |
| Steps | W H W W H H W H |
|---|---|
| Semitones | 2-1-2-2-1-1-2-1 |
| Degrees | 1 2 ♭3 4 5 ♯5 6 7 |
Shapes
Chromatic
Circle of Fifths
Related scales
Bebop Melodic Minor in other keys
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