What scale is this?

1 b2 3 4 5 b6 7

 

http://www.chordwizard.com/scales_cwfg.asp

Looks like the phrygian of c maj

 

If you renamed the C# as Db and the G# as Ab, then you might have a scale

It's not any scale or mode I recognize though, too many large interval jumps!

Db -> E is a minor third
Ab -> B is a minor third

It MIGHT be some altered scale the jazz guys would recognize. It's like a C major scale altered with a b2 and b6

 

if you drop the first note it's half/whole diminished

 

Frankly, I can't find this scale's name, but here are some things to think about it:

-The correct spelling is C-Db-E-F-G-Ab-B-C

-If it had a B flat instead of a B natural, it would be a phrygian dominant scale.

-The minor second interval between I and II plus the augmented second between II and III give this scale a typical arabic flavor.

-The minor second between I and II suggests that this scale has a phrygian or locrian character.

-Having this scale an augmented second interval between VI and VII, the second tetrachord also reminds of an harmonic minor scale.

The question hasn't been answered but hope this helps, anyway.

 

This is a very common mistake that I always emphasize to my students not to commit. You're right: That interval (the same for both examples) SOUNDS as a minor third, but this isn't a minor third. This is an augmented second. When you spell intervals, you should think of the natural (not altered) notes as the first name of the interval and the alterations are the last name. The first name is what gives an interval the correct spelling: Moving from D to E is a second, same as moving from A to B, regardless of the alterations. You have a second here, not a third. Now the last name (the alterations) is what gives the interval its character (minor, major, augmented -this case-, diminished, perfect).

That's why spelling the scale as C-C# or G-G# is wrong. Normally, a scale is a succession of seconds. But C-C# isn't a (minor) second. Again, it SOUNDS like that, but scales shouldn't be spelled by the way the intervals sound. This leads to lots of mistakes. If you remove the alterations, you'll notice that moving from C to C is an unison, so C-C# is an augmented unison, which is supposedly a wrong spelling for a scale. C-Db sounds the same, but this is a real minor second (correct spelling).

Again, this is a very common mistake that I always try to clarify to anybody who "falls" in it. Hope this helps.

 

That is the Double Harmonic Scale,

which is said to be a Diatonic Major scale,

hence the maj 3rd.



C Db E F G Ab B

or as mentioned...

1 b2 3 4 5 b6 7

Just some other points of interest.

Diatonic Major C D E F G A B

Melodic Minor C D Eb F G A B

Harmonic Minor C D Eb F G Ab B

D. Harmonic Minor C Db E F G Ab B

 

That's weird. I was just at that website to check my facts!

 

I did the same thing.


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I use google to search Talkbass as well.

seems to give better results, being google is so Huge.

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