About the B flat Bebop Melodic Minor scale
B flat 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, F♯, 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 A and G with the guitar's open strings. A guitarist finds the lowest B♭ at the 1st fret of the A string. With a capo at the first fret, B♭ Bebop Melodic Minor can 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 | BbB♭ | Root |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | CC | Major 2nd |
| 3 | DbD♭ | Minor 3rd |
| 4 | EbE♭ | Perfect 4th |
| 5 | FF | Perfect 5th |
| 6 | F#F♯ | Augmented 5th |
| 7 | GG | Major 6th |
| 8 | AA | 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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