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B locrian mode on guitar

B C D E F G A (1 ♭2 ♭3 4 ♭5 ♭6 ♭7)

The vii° chord's scale. Rarely home; mostly theory.

The whole neck

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rootscale noteLow E string at the bottom.
Open it on the interactive fretboard

The 5 CAGED positions

Positions: the five CAGED shapes, each built around a pentatonic box with the other two notes slotted in. One finger per fret, with the odd stretch. Each one shares its edge notes with the next. Dots show scale degrees: 1 is the root.

Position 1 (frets 7–10)

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Position 2 (frets 8–13)

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Position 3 (frets 12–15)

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Position 4 (frets 1–6)

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Position 5 (frets 3–8)

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Three-notes-per-string shapes (7 of them) are on the interactive fretboard.

Related

Other scales from B

B minor pentatonicB major pentatonicB blues scaleB major scaleB dorian modeB phrygian modeB lydian modeB mixolydian modeB natural minor scaleB harmonic minor scaleB melodic minor scale

Locrian mode in other keys

CD♭DE♭EFF♯GA♭AB♭