What's the name of this scale?

[cswolfe]

As I've been trying to get into modes, I've been trying to find the name of a couple exotic sounding scales I used to use *a lot*: Like scorpions on steroids.

Nothing new under the sun, so obviously all scales have been used a zillion times and somebody's "named" them.

But I cannot seem to find the one I used the most:

1 b2 b3 b4 5 b6 7 8

For example, in C:

C Db Eb E (<- flat of F) G Ab B C

strings:frets

6: 8 9 11 12

5: 10 11

4: 9 10



It's a scale you've heard a zillion times, so obviously somebody's named it.

Feel free to cheat. jguitar, the lengthy list at http://www.guitarsite.com/scales.htm ... whatever.

maybe it's right there in even one of those two charts labeled as "inkybinkyan" and I'm just missing it.

In the incredible calculators at Jguitar, I wish they had a calculator for plug in the tones and it would tell you the scale.

thanks in advance.

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Absent knowing what people have called this exotic sounding scale for decades or centuries, I guess I'll tag it with the stupid clumsy temp name of harmonic minor b2 b4

[Tom Gross]

I can't identify it, but I'm not a real theory scholar.
C Db Eb E (<- flat of F) G Ab B C

The problem is the step-and-a-half gap between the b4 and the 5 (E-G). Usually when you see that, the scale is one of the modes of Harmonic minor.

For example, this is G# harmonic minor:
G# - A# - B - C# - D# - E - G (F##) - G#

The third mode G# harmonic minor is close to your scale:

Cb-Db-Eb-E-G-Ab-Bb-Cb