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E ultralocrian Scale — Guitar Fretboard Visualization

Low E string: E, F, Gb, Ab, Bb, C, Db, E at frets 0, 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 9, 12

A string: Bb, C, Db, E, F, Gb, Ab at frets 1, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 11

D string: E, F, Gb, Ab, Bb, C, Db at frets 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 10, 11

G string: Ab, Bb, C, Db, E, F, Gb at frets 1, 3, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11

B string: C, Db, E, F, Gb, Ab, Bb at frets 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 9, 11

High E string: E, F, Gb, Ab, Bb, C, Db, E at frets 0, 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 9, 12

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E ultralocrian

The ultralocrian scale is the seventh mode of the harmonic minor scale: locrian with its 4th and 7th squeezed down further, leaving a diminished 7th chord spelled straight up the scale. Everything in it wants to collapse inward, which makes it a natural over diminished 7th chords and the darkest corners of metal and jazz vocabulary.

it consists of these notes and degrees:

E

I

G♭7no5/E
F

bii

Fm
G♭

bbIII

G♭maj
A♭

bIV+

A♭aug
B♭

bv

B♭m
C

bVI

Cmaj♭5
D♭

bbVII

D♭maj

Characteristic note: Db (bb7), the double-flat seventh that makes this the darkest mode of harmonic minor.

Same notes, different mode

E ultralocrian uses the same notes as the scales below. Start from a different note and you get a new mode built on the very same note set.

F neapolitan minorGb lydian #6Ab mixolydian augmentedBb romani minorC locrian dominantDb ionian major #2

ultralocrian in all 12 keys, with chords and related scales

tip
  • Use E ultralocrian over a diminished 7th chord: the double-flat 7th (Db) is the chord's own diminished 7th, spelled into the scale.
  • It is harmonic minor's seventh mode: play E a half step up in harmonic minor fingering and you are already here.
  • Everything wants to fall; resolve the whole line down a half step into the major or minor chord below.
  • For extreme metal color, pedal the open root against b2 (F), b4 (Ab) and b5 (Bb); there is no darker mode in the harmonic minor family.

How to play E ultralocrian on guitar

Both E strings hand you the root open, top and bottom, so the outer edges of the guitar drone in-key for free. First box finishes by fret 4, which means everything early happens right beside the nut. Available harmony stacks Fm, Abaug, and Bbm, while no functional dominant appears anywhere among the seven diatonic chords. D string adds a root at fret 2.

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