The C# Phrygian scale

All notes of the C# Phrygian scale: C#, D, E, F#, G#, A, B. 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

Db 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.