Hey there.. I made up a tapping solo for this month's GT Solo Assignment and I have been running the scale through my mind, and on paper, to try and determine the scale I am playing... I'm only just starting to grasp musicology for the first time in 16 years of playing guitar so some things that may seem fairly obvious to others are extremely confusing to me..

First question is what is this scale:

B C D E F# G A

And the other thing I was just thinking about was that I am actually playing this in reverse.. so rather than the C being a Minor 2nd in the scale, it is actually the Major 7th, as per the following:

B A G F# E D C

It's sort of like an inverted scale in that sense.. or am I over-analysing it? Calling the C the Major 7th and the A the Major 2nd, makes a lot more sense to me than the C being a Minor 2nd.

Ok so that's that little question.. the other quest is to do with chord construction.. I've worked out how to create all the main chords, which I play a lot (eg. A-Maj, A-Min, A-Maj7, A-Min7, and A7), from scale theory.. but after that I start to get confused.. someone deciphered the A-Dim7 for me.. but what about this formula:

1 min3 5 min6 min7

If the root (1) is E, for example, what is the chord that the above formula spells out?

Thanks :)