On this page, you find several fretboard diagrams for the Locrian #6 scale, with box and 3 notes per string patterns. This mode is also known as Dorian b2 b5 mode. This scale is composed of the Root, Minor Second, Minor Third, Perfect Fourth, Diminished Fifth, Major Sixth, and Minor Seventh

The B Locrian #6 Scale scale is made up of the notes B, C, D, E, F, G#, and A

The Locrian #6 is also known as Locrian 13 or Locrian Natural 6 or harmonic natural mode 2. This the second mode of the harmonic minor scale, built the same way as the Locrian mode, but with a natural 6 instead of a b6.. This the second mode of the harmonic minor scale, built the same way as the Locrian mode, but with a natural 6 instead of a b6.

It is composed of the following intervals : 1 – b2 – b3 – 4 – b5 – 6 – b7. It is a rarely heard-scale which can be played anywhere that you used to play the Locrian mode, generally over half-diminished chords. Its Second Degree of Harmonic Minor Scale

Comparison Between Locrian Modes

It is important not to confuse with the Locrian #2 mode that is the sixth mode of the melodic minor scale. The Locrian #2 mode has the same notes as the Locrian mode (the seventh mode of the major scale) but with a major second (2) in place of the minor second (b2).

Considering that we can add the Locrian bebop scale to this list, it makes a total of 4 important half-diminished scales to know.