ARABIC SCALE

Learn how to play the Arabic guitar scale with guitar notes and neck diagrams all along the fretboard. The name ‘Arab’ic Scale’ has been given to several different scales, each of which has an ‘Middle Eastern’ sound when played. Each of the scales below has at some time been referred to as an ‘Arabic scale’.

Although the scales on this page may have been used in traditional Arabi’c music (or are at least reminiscent of scales that were), it’s unlikely that the original musicians were thinking in terms of Western theory or notation; the scales here are likely more ‘translations’ of the actual scales that were used. The scales we’ve included are: the double harmonic scale, Phrygian dominant scale, Phrygian scale, and the diminished scale (half-whole step).

The intervals composing the Arabi’c Scale scale are Root, Major Second, Minor Third, Perfect Fourth, Augmented Fourth, Augmented Fifth, Major Sixth, and Major Seventh

The C Arabi’c Scale scale is made up of the notes C, D, Eb, F, F#, G#, A, and B

C ARABI’C SCALE INTERVALS