About the B flat Symmetric Diminished scale
B flat Symmetric Diminished is the half-whole diminished scale, symmetrical and made for dominant chords. It's used for jazz improvisation over dominant seventh chords.
Learn morePositions
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. This scale is symmetric, so the same box shape repeats up the neck.
Notes and intervals
| 1 | B flat | Root |
| 2 | C flat | Minor 2nd |
| 3 | D flat | Minor 3rd |
| 4 | D | Major 3rd |
| 5 | E | Augmented 4th |
| 6 | F | Perfect 5th |
| 7 | G | Major 6th |
| 8 | A flat | Minor 7th |
Shapes
Chromatic
Circle of Fifths
Related scales
Symmetric Diminished in other keys
C Symmetric Diminished D flat Symmetric Diminished D Symmetric Diminished E flat Symmetric Diminished E Symmetric Diminished F Symmetric Diminished G flat Symmetric Diminished G Symmetric Diminished A flat Symmetric Diminished A Symmetric Diminished B Symmetric Diminished
Modes
The same notes, starting on a different note.
