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← C♭ Major on Guitar

C♭ Major — In Thirds

Scales harmonised in thirds are a core jazz, classical, and fingerstyle drill — each beat is a two-note voicing of the scale tone plus a diatonic third above. The intervals alternate between major and minor thirds depending on the scale degree.

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Verovio
Tempo120 bpm

Playback sounds an octave below the written notation — the instrument's concert (sounding) pitch.

Audio source: tonejs-instruments by Nick Brosowsky (MIT)

Related scales

RelativeA♭ Natural MinorSame seven notes, tonic on the 6th degree — your access to the related minor key.ParallelC♭ Natural MinorSame tonic, the parallel minor — the deepest mode flip in tonal music.Up a fifthG♭ MajorOne sharp brighter on the circle of fifths.Up a fourthF♭ MajorOne flat darker on the circle of fifths.One note differentC♭ LydianRaise the 4th — the bright, floating Lydian colour.One note differentC♭ MixolydianLower the 7th — folk, blues-rock, Celtic vocabulary.SubsetC♭ Pentatonic MajorFive notes from the same scale — the bedrock pentatonic.ExoticC♭ Harmonic MajorBorrow the ♭6 from minor — operatic edge, IV / iv6 colour.

Same presentation in other keys