B♭ Phrygian dominantScale
Formula
B♭ Phrygian dominant on the chromatic circle
B♭ Phrygian dominant is the 5th mode of the Harmonic minor family. Pick another note on the circle to open the scale that starts there.
B♭ Phrygian dominant across the fretboard
Every note of the scale up to the 16th fret, named by its degree. The root is a ring. Step through the five CAGED positions one at a time in the scale library.
Chords in B♭ Phrygian dominant
Stack every other note of the scale from each degree and you get its chords. Open any of them in the chord library.
Where B♭ Phrygian dominant fits
Flamenco, Middle-Eastern music, klezmer and metal. Over the V7 of a minor key, or as a home sound over a major chord with a ♭9.
B♭ Phrygian dominant is mode 5 of the harmonic minor family. The same notes played from each of its other degrees give the family's other modes:
- B♭ Phrygian dominant
- C♭ Lydian ♯2
- D Altered 𝄫7
- E♭ Harmonic minor
- F Locrian ♮6
- G♭ Ionian ♯5
- A♭ Dorian ♯4
Move one note by a half step and you get a different scale:
Phrygian dominant scale in every key
B♭ Phrygian dominant scale questions
What notes are in the B♭ Phrygian dominant scale?
B♭ C♭ D E♭ F G♭ A♭. As degrees from the root: 1 ♭2 3 4 5 ♭6 ♭7.
What is the B♭ Phrygian dominant scale formula?
1 ♭2 3 4 5 ♭6 ♭7, or in steps between the notes, H 1½ H W H W W (W is a whole step of two frets, H a half step of one fret, 1½ three frets).
How do you play the B♭ Phrygian dominant scale on guitar?
This page draws every note of B♭ Phrygian dominant up to the 16th fret, each named by its degree with the root as a ring. To learn it a few frets at a time, open it in the scale library and step through its five CAGED positions, from the A shape to the G shape to the E shape to the D shape to the C shape.
What chords are in the B♭ Phrygian dominant scale?
B♭7 (I), C♭maj7 (♭II), D°7 (iii°), E♭m(maj7) (iv), Fm7♭5 (v°), G♭maj7♯5 (♭VI+), A♭m7 (♭vii).
When is the B♭ Phrygian dominant scale used?
Flamenco, Middle-Eastern music, klezmer and metal. Over the V7 of a minor key, or as a home sound over a major chord with a ♭9.