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Bb Major Blues – This scale is particularly useful in a Blues context.

Bb Lydian mode – This scale can be used over the Bb chord in certain contexts to add a jazz flavour.

Bb Major scale – This is the ‘default scale’ of the Bb chord.

Bb Major pentatonic scale – This scale will almost always work over the Bb Major chord, in any context.

The most common and effective scales that can be used to solo/improvise over the Bb Major chord, or to create melodies for the purposes of song writing are:

Which Scales Can Be Played Over the Bb chord? The Bb chord can also be used itself as a substitute for more complicated chords, such as the Bb Major 7 chord, the Bb7 chord, and other extension chords which have Bb as the root note (it can’t be used in place of minor chords though!). The Bb chord can often be substituted with the Bb sus 4 chord, the Bb sus 2 chord and the Bb add 9 chord. Often, as in the example below, the first finger does not actually form a barre, but instead simply plays the root note.

The most common way to play the Bb chord essentially the root-5 Bb barre chord, played on the first fret.

If you’ve come to this page just to view some chord diagrams for B flat, here they are. The chords in the key of Bb are: Bb, Cm, Dm, Eb, F, Gm, A diminished. The Bb Major chord is the first chord in the key of Bb.The Bb Major chord (just like all Major chords) contains the following intervals (from the root note): Major 3rd, minor 3rd, Perfect 4th (back to the root note).The Bb Major chord is produced by playing the 1st (root), 3rd and 5th notes of the Bb Major scale.The B flat Major chord contains the notes Bb, D and F.The most common ways of playing it are on the first fret as a root-5 bar chord and on the 6th fret as a root 6 bar chord. It is the 4th chord in the key of F (a very popular key), which means it get used quite a lot. The Bb Major chord is a common chord on the guitar.

B flat power chord