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Fig. 1 · Bb altered on the keyboard

piano scale

B♭ altered

B♭1C♭♭2D♭♭3E♭♭♭4F♭♭5G♭♭6A♭♭7

The seventh mode of melodic minor. Every degree above the tonic that can be altered, is.

The same sounds spelled from the other side are A♯ altered.

on guitaron ukulele

Written out

Fig. 2 · Bb altered, ascending

Every accidental is written in, rather than left to a key signature, so the letters can be read one at a time.

The step pattern

B♭HC♭WD♭HE♭♭WF♭WG♭WA♭WB♭

What is true of it

B♭ altered is B♭, C♭, D♭, E♭♭, F♭, G♭ and A♭, and back to B♭.

Its steps are H – W – H – W – W – W – W, where W is a whole step and H a half.

Written correctly it needs 8 alterations, E♭♭ among them. That is what the letters force, and it is also why nobody writes music in this key: the same notes spelled from the other side are easier to read.

On the same tonic, B♭ Locrian differs from it by exactly one note.

Chords made only of these notes

D♭mminorD♭m7minor seventhG♭majorG♭augaugmentedG♭7dominant seventhA♭dimdiminishedA♭m7♭5half-diminished seventhB♭dimdiminished

Found by testing every chord in the catalogue against these 7 sounds, not chosen.

Other scales on B♭

B♭ Phrygian dominantexoticB♭ Lydian dominantexoticB♭ double harmonicexoticB♭ majormajorB♭ natural minorminorB♭ harmonic minorminor

C altC♯ altD♭ altD altD♯ altE♭ altE altF altall 374