The notes
- G1
- B3
- D5
- F♭7
- A2
- E6
The G dominant 13th arpeggio is G, B, D, F, A, E.
You may also see it called 1 3 5 ♭7 2 6.
On the staff
On a treble staff, the G dominant 13th arpeggio is written G B D F A E.
The solid notes are the G dominant 13th arpeggio. The pale notes are the rest of G mixolydian, the larger scale it is carved out of, so you can see which notes it leaves out.
Why the G dominant 13th arpeggio has no sharps or flats
- G1
- 4
- B3
- T+S
- D5
- T+S
- F♭7
- 4
- A♯♯♯♯♯♯♯♯♯♯♯♯2
- 7
- E♯♯♯♯♯♯♯♯♯♯♯♯6
- -9
- G8
A scale is a pattern of steps, and this one is 4 T+S T+S 4 7 -9: 4, a tone and a half, a tone and a half, and so on. T+S stands for a tone and a half, which is three semitones. 4 stands for a step of four semitones. 7 stands for a step of seven semitones. -9 stands for a step of -9 semitones. The pattern is what gives G dominant 13th its sound, and it stays the same whichever note you start on.
This scale has only six notes, so it does not use every letter. It is G mixolydian with some notes taken out, and it keeps that scale's spelling exactly.
Every letter already falls where the pattern needs it, so G dominant 13th is written with no sharps or flats at all.
The G dominant 13th arpeggio needs no sharps or flats, because every letter already falls where the 4 T+S T+S 4 7 -9 pattern of steps needs it.
The pattern of steps is the part of a scale that never changes. The letter names take sharps or flats to fit that pattern, and a key signature is a record of those sharps or flats.
On the piano
The keyboard shows the same six notes as a shape you can see. The coloured keys are the G dominant 13th arpeggio, and the pale keys are the rest of G mixolydian.
G dominant 13th arpeggio on the whole neck
32 notes of the G dominant 13th arpeggio are marked across four strings.
This is every place the notes of the G dominant 13th arpeggio fall on the ukulele, with each note's name and its scale degree. The roots are marked so you can find your bearings.
The five boxes
The G dominant 13th arpeggio has five playable positions, at frets 2–6, 4–8, 7–11, 9–13 and 10–14.
There are five shapes, and each one starts on a different note of the scale. Once you know one shape you can slide it along the neck, and once you know all five they join up to cover the whole neck.
One climb up the neck
The climb runs from fret 0 to fret 12 and plays fourteen notes.
This is one path from the lowest root to the top of the neck, and it plays each note once, never on two strings. It takes a different number of notes on different strings. The widest stretch on any one string is five frets.
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