B Super Locrian Pentatonic Guitar Scale

B Super Locrian Pentatonic in Baritone (B Standard) — Notes and Intervals

The B Super Locrian Pentatonic scale is an aggressive and highly dissonant subset of the altered scale. On Guitar, it contains the notes B, D, Eb, F, A. It is a primary tool for advanced jazz guitarists and horn players to create outside tension over altered dominant chords before resolving back to the tonic. Commonly used in Jazz, Avant-Garde, Fusion. Notable players include John Coltrane, Michael Brecker. Use over 7alt, 7#9b13 chords. The pentatonic shortcut for maximum 'outside' tension over altered dominants.

Notes: B, D, Eb, F, A

Intervals: 1P, 3m, 4d, 5d, 7m

Degrees: 1 b2 3 4 b5

Formula: WH-H-W-4-W

Number of notes: 5

Tuning: Baritone (B Standard) (B-F#-D-A-E-B)

Explore This Scale in Other Tunings

• B Super Locrian Pentatonic in Standard Tuning
• B Super Locrian Pentatonic in Drop D
• B Super Locrian Pentatonic in DADGAD
• B Super Locrian Pentatonic in Open G
• B Super Locrian Pentatonic in 7-string
• B Super Locrian Pentatonic in 8-string
• B Super Locrian Pentatonic in Drop C
• B Super Locrian Pentatonic in Drop B
• B Super Locrian Pentatonic in Open D
• B Super Locrian Pentatonic in Half Step Down
• B Super Locrian Pentatonic in Open E
• B Super Locrian Pentatonic in Open A
• B Super Locrian Pentatonic in Double Drop D
• B Super Locrian Pentatonic in Open C

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