The C Phrygian scale

All notes of the C Phrygian scale: C, Db, Eb, F, G, Ab, Bb. Minor with a lowered second — the semitone right above the tonic gives it its Spanish colour.

Phrygian is one of the seven modes — what a mode is, with all seven to listen to.

The notes

Steps in semitones: 1 – 2 – 2 – 2 – 1 – 2 – 2

On the keyboard

Guitar

Ukulele

C major
C minor
C harmonic minor
C melodic minor
C Dorian
C chord

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Every note on this page is computed, not typed in — following the rule that also makes F# major spell its seventh degree E#, not F.