Hindu (Mixolydian b6) scale on guitar

The Hindu scale is a major scale with a flat sixth and seventh, also called Mixolydian b6 or Aeolian dominant.

Play A Hindu (Mixolydian b6) on the fretboard in Guitar Upscale

About the Hindu (Mixolydian b6) scale

It is the fifth mode of melodic minor. The bottom half is major, the top half is natural minor.

Over a dominant 7th chord it adds the flat 13th, a sound that leans toward a minor key.

Use it over the V7 chord of a minor key, such as G7 going to Cm.

Intervals from the root

Chords in A Hindu (Mixolydian b6)

Stack every other note of the scale and you get one chord on each note. These chords sound at home with the scale, so they make good progressions.

Same notes, another starting note

Start the A Hindu (Mixolydian b6) scale on another of its notes and you get these scales:

• From degree 2 (B): B Locrian #2 (Half Diminished)
• From degree 3 (C#): C# Diminished Whole Tone
• From degree 4 (D): D Melodic Minor
• From degree 5 (E): E Javanese (Dorian b2)
• From degree b6 (F): F Lydian Augmented
• From degree b7 (G): G Overtone (Lydian Dominant)

Hindu (Mixolydian b6) in every key

More Various Exotic scales

• Narayan Scale
• Neapolitan Minor
• Neapolitan Major
• Algerian Scale
• Pelog (Balinese)
• Pelog 2
• Egyptian (Suspended Pentatonic)
• Oriental 1
• Oriental 2
• Oriental Scale
• Spanish Eight Tone
• Javanese (Dorian b2)
• Prometheus Scale
• Prometheus Neapolitan
• Moorish Phrygian