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E♭ Minor Six Diminished scale

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About the E flat Minor Six Diminished scale

E flat Minor Six Diminished is a harmonic minor with an added sixth, a Barry Harris chord scale. It's used for jazz chord soloing and voice-led minor harmony.

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 1fr 1
Position 2fr 2
Position 3fr 4
Position 4fr 6
Position 5fr 7
Position 6fr 8
Position 7fr 10
Position 8fr 11

Notes and intervals

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

Minor Six Diminished in other keys

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