Locrian #6 scale
One bright note interrupts this scale, the natural sixth, sitting above a flat second and flat fifth that would otherwise make it Locrian outright.
- Used for
- Jazz and film music that wants tension with a glimmer.
- Formula
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Steps H W W H 1½ H W Semitones 1-2-2-1-3-1-2 Degrees 1 ♭2 ♭3 4 ♭5 6 ♭7 - Relationships
- It is the second mode of the Harmonic Minor scale.
Locrian #6 in all 12 keys
Pick a key to see it on the piano, or jump straight to the guitar view.
- C C Locrian #6 scale piano guitar
- D flat Db Locrian #6 scale piano guitar
- D D Locrian #6 scale piano guitar
- E flat Eb Locrian #6 scale piano guitar
- E E Locrian #6 scale piano guitar
- F F Locrian #6 scale piano guitar
- G flat Gb Locrian #6 scale piano guitar
- G G Locrian #6 scale piano guitar
- A flat Ab Locrian #6 scale piano guitar
- A A Locrian #6 scale piano guitar
- B flat Bb Locrian #6 scale piano guitar
- B B Locrian #6 scale piano guitar
