B♭7 arpeggio & chord for gypsy jazz

The B♭7 arpeggio is built from the notes B♭ (R), D (3), F (5), A♭ (♭7). On Haute Gitanerie you can see it across the whole guitar neck — contained position boxes, long diagonal forms, and its parent scale (B♭ Phrygian dominant) — with note names in English (C D E) or solfège (Do Ré Mi).

The B♭7 chord

The B♭7 chord voicing uses those same notes (B♭ (R), D (3), F (5), A♭ (♭7)). Switch the fretboard to Chords to see gypsy-jazz voicings for B♭7, or keep Arpeggio to practise the tones one at a time — same shape, two ways to hear it.

How to practise the B♭7 arpeggio

Start with a contained position box near the low strings, then move it up the neck fret by fret, or follow a diagonal form for a two-octave sweep in the manouche style. Every note is labelled with its interval (R, 3, 5, ♭7), so you always know where the root, third, fifth sit.

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Manouche alternatives

On a dominant, the ♭9 — or the diminished a semitone above (the 7♭9 without its root) — adds the manouche tension.

B♭7 · B♭7♭9 · B°