Advanced Guitar Player

The Db Major Scale is a Diatonic Scale made up of the notes Db-Eb-F-Gb-Ab-Bb-C-Db (W, W, H, W, W, W, H). If you find yourself playing Modal Jazz Guitar, you may here it referred to as the Ionian Mode of D Flat Major.

The guitar tab image below shows the D Flat Major Scale in five positions on the guitar fretboard - for reasons of space the sixth position starting at the thirteenth fret is not shown here but is included in the downloadable guitar pro tab and the pdf file.

The fingering and positions shown are just one of many possibilities so you should experiment with playing the scale in other positions on the guitar fretboard and with other fingerings.

However, as the tablature shows, the way I normally practice a scale is to run up the fretboard 'grabbing' the scale in whatever octave I find it in the closest position possible.

In the case of D Flat Major Ionian, I usually practice it in First Position and then with my first finger on the the Third, Sixth, Eighth, Tenth and Thirteenth Frets respectively - these routines give me enough flexibility to find the notes I need wherever I am on the fretboard in real soloing guitar situations.

These Guitar Major Scale Tabs were created using the Guitar Pro 6 Tab Editor and Player.

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