D♭ Yo (Db Yo) scale on banjo
D♭ Yo has 5 notes: D♭ E♭ G♭ A♭ B♭. Degrees: 1 2 4 5 6. Formula: W W+H W W W+H.
What notes are in the D♭ Yo scale?
D♭, E♭, G♭, A♭ and B♭. It has 5 notes; its formula in whole and half steps is W W+H W W W+H.
What does D♭ Yo sound like, and when do you use it?
No 3rd, with a 6th: open, folk and Eastern at once. Use it over sus2, 6sus.
Chord progressions to improvise with D♭ Yo
In Jam mode (the Jam button above) a band of grand piano, upright bass and drums (recorded instruments) plays these progressions as swing, bossa, groove or ballad, and the fretboard lights up the notes of each chord as it plays. It's a backing track made for this scale in D♭:
- Blues (I7–IV7–V7): 12 bars over D♭7, G♭7 and A♭7. The 12-bar blues: three 7 chords with the scale on top. The clash between the ♭3 and the chord's 3rd is the blues.
D♭ Yo positions on banjo
In G D G B D tuning, keeping the hand in one area of the neck, D♭ Yo is played in 5 positions:
- Position 1: frets 11 to 14 (starts on the root)
- Position 2: frets 1 to 4
- Position 3: frets 4 to 7
- Position 4: frets 6 to 9
- Position 5: frets 8 to 11
Same notes as
F♯ major pentatonic · E♭ minor pentatonic · A♭ Egyptian (suspended) · D♭ major blues pentatonic
Yo in other keys
On other instruments
D♭ Yo on piano · D♭ Yo on guitar · D♭ Yo on bass · D♭ Yo on ukulele · D♭ Yo on mandolin · D♭ Yo on violin · D♭ Yo on viola · D♭ Yo on cello · D♭ Yo on alto sax · D♭ Yo on tenor sax · D♭ Yo on trumpet · D♭ Yo on flute · All scales