B♭ Japanese Scale

Ethnic Scale

start by assigning your fingers to the tenth, eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth frets
on the fifth string play a B flat on the thirteenth fret using your fourth finger
on the fourth string play a C on the tenth fret using your first finger and an E flat on the thirteenth fret using your fourth finger
on the third string play an F on the tenth fret using your first finger and a G flat on the eleventh fret using your second finger
on the second string play a B flat on the eleventh fret using your second finger

B♭ JapaneseCAGED Scale Shapes

C Shape

A Shape

G Shape

E Shape

D Shape

Recommended Chords for a B♭ Japanese Scale

	Chord	Shared Notes
	B♭ Suspended Guitar Chord	B♭, E♭, F
	B♭ Suspended 2 Guitar Chord	B♭, C, F
	E♭ Minor 6th (add9) Guitar Chord	E♭, G♭, B♭, C, F
	E♭ Minor (add9) Guitar Chord	E♭, G♭, B♭, F
	E♭ Minor 6th Guitar Chord	E♭, G♭, B♭, C
	E♭ Minor Guitar Chord	E♭, G♭, B♭
	E♭ Suspended 2 Guitar Chord	E♭, F, B♭
	F 7th Sus4 Guitar Chord	F, B♭, C, E♭
	F Suspended Guitar Chord	F, B♭, C

Japanese mode

The Japanese mode is a pentatonic musical scale commonly used in traditional Japanese music. The intervals of the scale are major second, minor third, perfect fifth and minor sixth (such as the notes A, B, C, E, F and up to A ja:ヨナ抜き音階.), essentially a natural minor scale in Western music theory without the subdominant and subtonic, the same operation performed on the major scale to produce the pentatonic major scale. The more correct term would be kumoijoshi, as given by William P. Malm for one of the three tuning scales of the koto adapted from shamisen music.

B♭ Japanese Scale

Ethnic Scale

B♭ JapaneseCAGED Scale Shapes

Recommended Chords for a B♭ Japanese Scale

Notes in a B♭ Japanese Scale

Japanese mode