Mixolydian b2 scale
Hindustani music knows this scale as Ahir Bhairav, a well established morning raga, and Western theory arrives at the same seven pitches as the fifth mode of harmonic major.
- Used for
- Jazz and world-flavored solos over dominant chords.
- Formula
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Steps H 1½ H W W H W Semitones 1-3-1-2-2-1-2 Degrees 1 ♭2 3 4 5 6 ♭7 - Also called
- Inverted Harmonic Minor, Chakravakam, and Dominant ♭2.
Mixolydian b2 in all 12 keys
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- C C Mixolydian b2 scale piano guitar
- D flat Db Mixolydian b2 scale piano guitar
- D D Mixolydian b2 scale piano guitar
- E flat Eb Mixolydian b2 scale piano guitar
- E E Mixolydian b2 scale piano guitar
- F F Mixolydian b2 scale piano guitar
- G flat Gb Mixolydian b2 scale piano guitar
- G G Mixolydian b2 scale piano guitar
- A flat Ab Mixolydian b2 scale piano guitar
- A A Mixolydian b2 scale piano guitar
- B flat Bb Mixolydian b2 scale piano guitar
- B B Mixolydian b2 scale piano guitar