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B Bebop Melodic Minor scale

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About the B Bebop Melodic Minor scale

B Bebop Melodic Minor is a melodic minor with a chromatic passing tone added. It's used for bebop solos over minor and minor-major chords.

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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.

Position 1open
Position 2fr 2
Position 3fr 3
Position 4fr 4
Position 5fr 6
Position 6fr 7
Position 7fr 9
Position 8fr 10

Notes and intervals

1 B Root
2 C sharp Major 2nd
3 D Minor 3rd
4 E Perfect 4th
5 F sharp Perfect 5th
6 G Augmented 5th
7 G sharp Major 6th
8 A sharp Major 7th

Shapes

Chromatic

C C♯ D♭ D D♯ E♭ E F F♯ G♭ G G♯ A♭ A A♯ B♭ B

Circle of Fifths

C G D A E B F♯ G♭ C♯ D♭ G♯ A♭ D♯ E♭ A♯ B♭ F

Related scales

Bebop Melodic Minor in other keys

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