C Harmonic minorScale
Formula
C Harmonic minor on the chromatic circle
C Harmonic minor is the 1st mode of the Harmonic minor family. Pick another note on the circle to open the scale that starts there.
C Harmonic minor 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 C Harmonic minor
Stack every other note of the scale from each degree and you get its chords. Open any of them in the chord library.
Where C Harmonic minor fits
Minor with a raised 7th, which gives a minor key its V7: classical music, neoclassical metal, and Middle-Eastern and Eastern European folk.
C Harmonic minor is mode 1 of the harmonic minor family. The same notes played from each of its other degrees give the family's other modes:
Move one note by a half step and you get a different scale:
Harmonic minor scale in every key
C Harmonic minor scale questions
What notes are in the C Harmonic minor scale?
C D E♭ F G A♭ B. As degrees from the root: 1 2 ♭3 4 5 ♭6 7.
What is the C Harmonic minor scale formula?
1 2 ♭3 4 5 ♭6 7, or in steps between the notes, W H W W H 1½ H (W is a whole step of two frets, H a half step of one fret, 1½ three frets).
How do you play the C Harmonic minor scale on guitar?
This page draws every note of C Harmonic minor 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 C shape to the A shape to the G shape to the E shape to the D shape.
What chords are in the C Harmonic minor scale?
Cm(maj7) (i), Dm7♭5 (ii°), E♭maj7♯5 (♭III+), Fm7 (iv), G7 (V), A♭maj7 (♭VI), B°7 (vii°).
When is the C Harmonic minor scale used?
Minor with a raised 7th, which gives a minor key its V7: classical music, neoclassical metal, and Middle-Eastern and Eastern European folk.