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A Locrian Scale notes: A Bb C D Eb F G (R b2 b3 4 b5 b6 b7). See all 10 positions on an interactive guitar fretboard and hear each one played. Free, with 20,000+ shapes.

A Locrian
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Tunings

Current tuning: Standard

Note: Scale, chord and arpeggio positions are worked out for every tuning, so some may stretch wider or be fewer than in Standard. Learning and Song shapes are written for Standard, so those pages always show Standard tuning.

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ALocrian Scale
Notes

A, Bb, C, D, Eb, F, G

Degrees

R, b2, b3, 4, b5, b6, b7

Intervals

R, 1, 2, 2, 1, 2, 2

Playback settings

90 BPM

A Locrian Scale

Locrian is the only mode of the major scale with a flat 5th, so its own Root chord is diminished and it never quite sounds resolved. It is the seventh mode, and rarely a home key. It is the right sound, though, over a minor 7th flat 5 (half-diminished) chord, such as the ii chord of a minor key, and some metal bands use its instability for dark riffs.

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