Named 1 2 3 #4 5 6 7. Its tonic triad is major, and the chord on the second degree is major rather than minor.
Notes and degrees
Each degree of the scale, its note name in this key, and its distance from the root in semitones.
Degree
Note
Semitones
Interval from the root
1
Bb
0
Perfect unison
tonic
2
C
2
Major second
3
D
4
Major third
#4
E
6
Tritone
5
F
7
Perfect fifth
6
G
9
Major sixth
7
A
11
Major seventh
Positions on the guitar
The five windows below are computed, not copied from a shape chart. The script locates the lowest
occurrence of Bb on each of the five upper strings within the first twelve frets and takes a
five-fret window centred on it. Because a scale repeats every twelve frets, these five windows cover
the whole neck; the same sequence returns an octave higher. The positions are numbered from the lowest
fret upwards, so position 1 is always the window nearest the nut and position 5 the window nearest the
twelfth fret.
Position 1 — frets 0–3
Root on the 5th string A2 at fret 1. 17 notes of the scale inside this window.
Read the grid as a chord diagram: the top row is the first string. Degrees appear in the
notes and degrees table above; a filled cell is a note of the scale, and the shaded cell is the tonic.
Related keys and modes
ParentParent major scaleF major contains the same seven notes, with the tonic on a different degree
Mode/KeyF ioniansame parent scale, different tonic
Mode/KeyG doriansame parent scale, different tonic
Mode/KeyA phrygiansame parent scale, different tonic
Mode/KeyC mixolydiansame parent scale, different tonic
Mode/KeyD aeoliansame parent scale, different tonic
Mode/KeyE locriansame parent scale, different tonic