F♯ Neapolitan minorScale
Formula
F♯ Neapolitan minor on the chromatic circle
F♯ Neapolitan minor is one of the exotic scales. Pick another note on the circle to open the scale that starts there.
F♯ Neapolitan 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 F♯ Neapolitan 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 F♯ Neapolitan minor fits
Harmonic minor with a ♭2: classical and neoclassical music, a dark exotic minor.
Move one note by a half step and you get a different scale:
Neapolitan minor scale in every key
F♯ Neapolitan minor scale questions
What notes are in the F♯ Neapolitan minor scale?
F♯ G A B C♯ D E♯. As degrees from the root: 1 ♭2 ♭3 4 5 ♭6 7.
What is the F♯ Neapolitan minor scale formula?
1 ♭2 ♭3 4 5 ♭6 7, or in steps between the notes, H W 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 F♯ Neapolitan minor scale on guitar?
This page draws every note of F♯ Neapolitan 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 E shape to the D shape to the C shape to the A shape to the G shape.
What chords are in the F♯ Neapolitan minor scale?
F♯m(maj7) (i), Gmaj7 (♭II), A7♯5 (♭III+), Bm7 (iv), C♯7♭5 (V), Dmaj7 (♭VI), E♯ (𝄫3 ♭5 𝄫7) (VII).
When is the F♯ Neapolitan minor scale used?
Harmonic minor with a ♭2: classical and neoclassical music, a dark exotic minor.