D# Bebop Minor Guitar Scale
Guitar scale in Open C tuning — fretboard diagram
TuningOpen C (CGCGCE)
Frets22
D# Bebop Minor in Open C — Notes and Intervals
The D# Bebop Minor scale is a specialized eight-note scale for minor-key jazz. On Guitar, it contains the notes D#, F, F#, G, G#, A#, C, C#. It adds a chromatic note to the Dorian mode to maintain rhythmic drive and harmonic clarity during fast improvisations over minor seventh chords. Commonly used in Jazz, Bebop, Hard Bop. Notable players include Wes Montgomery, Joe Henderson, Dexter Gordon. Use over m7 chords in jazz. The chromatic addition keeps the phrasing rhythmically clean during fast improvisation.
Notes: D#, F, F#, G, G#, A#, C, C#
Intervals: 1P, 2M, 3m, 3M, 4P, 5P, 6M, 7m
Degrees: 1 2 b3 4 5 6 7 b8
Formula: W-H-H-H-W-W-H-W
Number of notes: 8
Tuning: Open C (E-C-G-C-G-C)
Explore This Scale in Other Tunings
- D# Bebop Minor in Standard Tuning
- D# Bebop Minor in Drop D
- D# Bebop Minor in DADGAD
- D# Bebop Minor in Open G
- D# Bebop Minor in Baritone (B Standard)
- D# Bebop Minor in 7-string
- D# Bebop Minor in 8-string
- D# Bebop Minor in Drop C
- D# Bebop Minor in Drop B
- D# Bebop Minor in Open D
- D# Bebop Minor in Half Step Down
- D# Bebop Minor in Open E
- D# Bebop Minor in Open A
- D# Bebop Minor in Double Drop D