Locrian scale
Locrian is the only diatonic mode whose tonic triad is diminished, because it carries a flat third and a flat fifth together.
- Used for
- Jazz soloing over half-diminished chords and tense, dissonant passages.
- Formula
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Steps H W W H W W W Semitones 1-2-2-1-2-2-2 Degrees 1 ♭2 ♭3 4 ♭5 ♭6 ♭7 - Relationships
- It is the seventh mode of the Major scale.
Locrian in all 12 keys
Pick a key to see it on the piano, or jump straight to the guitar view.
- C C Locrian scale piano guitar
- D flat Db Locrian scale piano guitar
- D D Locrian scale piano guitar
- E flat Eb Locrian scale piano guitar
- E E Locrian scale piano guitar
- F F Locrian scale piano guitar
- G flat Gb Locrian scale piano guitar
- G G Locrian scale piano guitar
- A flat Ab Locrian scale piano guitar
- A A Locrian scale piano guitar
- B flat Bb Locrian scale piano guitar
- B B Locrian scale piano guitar
