SCALE REFERENCE

D♭ Bebop Dominant

D♭ – E♭ – F – G♭ – A♭ – B♭ – C♭ – C1 2 3 4 5 6 b7 7

Also written C♯ Bebop Dominant — the same pitches spelled the other way.

Mixolydian with a chromatic passing note between the b7 and the root — the extra note keeps chord tones landing on the beat in a running eighth-note line.

Notes & degrees

D♭1E♭2F3G♭4A♭5B♭6C♭b7C7

Notes	Db, Eb, F, Gb, Ab, Bb, Cb, C
Steps	W – W – H – W – W – H – H – H (W = whole, H = half)

Piano

Guitar & ukulele — every position (frets 0–12)

Root notes are red. The full map of the scale on the guitar neck; the common box patterns are groups of these notes.

The same scale on a ukulele in standard G–C–E–A tuning.

Other scales on D♭

Core scales & modes

D♭ Major D♭ Natural Minor D♭ Harmonic Minor D♭ Melodic Minor D♭ Dorian D♭ Phrygian D♭ Lydian D♭ Mixolydian D♭ Locrian

Pentatonic & blues

D♭ Major Pentatonic D♭ Minor Pentatonic D♭ Blues D♭ Major Blues

Jazz & altered

D♭ Harmonic Major D♭ Phrygian Dominant D♭ Lydian Dominant D♭ Altered

Symmetric

D♭ Whole Tone D♭ Diminished (Whole–Half)D♭ Diminished (Half–Whole)D♭ Augmented Scale

World & exotic

D♭ Hungarian Minor D♭ Double Harmonic Major D♭ Neapolitan Minor

Bebop Dominant on another root

C C♯D♭D E♭E F F♯G♭G A♭A B♭B

Keep exploring

See the diatonic chords with audio in the Scale & Chord Finder, find where a key sits among the others on the Circle of Fifths, or start the free Cloud Atelier music guides.