C Mixolydian Bebop Scale on 7-String Guitar

Play the C Mixolydian Bebop scale on 7-String Guitar with fretboard diagrams that map the pattern across the neck. The Mixolydian Bebop scale has 8 notes per octave and belongs to the bebop family.

All 5 of 7-String Guitar's open strings fall inside C Mixolydian Bebop — B (the 7th), E (the 3rd), A (the 6th), D (the 2nd), G (the 5th) — though C itself has to be stopped. Open, the strings cover B1 to E4.

Mixolydian with a passing major 7th between the b7 and the octave — the bright, bluesy dominant sound with a chromatic slide that keeps every chord tone on a downbeat. Slick, swinging, and quintessentially bebop.

Heard in: Jazz lines over dominant seventh chords, blues changes, and rhythm changes — the workhorse bebop scale.

7-String Guitar is tuned B–E–A–D–G–B–E, with 15 frets to work with.

Each position shows the scale notes and their intervals from the root so you can connect the shape to its sound, hear it with audio playback, and practice it in any register. Movable patterns let you transpose the same fingering to other keys once it is learned.

Once a position is under your fingers, link the C Mixolydian Bebop scale to the chords it harmonizes and to progressions in the key of C to start improvising and writing with it. Working a scale alongside its chords is the fastest way to make it stick and to hear how it colors a progression.