9b5 Pentatonic scale
Five notes serve half-diminished harmony here, spelling the chord's root, flat third, flat fifth and flat seventh with a natural second added above them.
- Used for
- Jazz solos over altered and half-diminished chords.
- Formula
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Steps W H 1½ 4 semitones W Semitones 2-1-3-4-2 Degrees 1 2 ♭3 ♭5 ♭7
9b5 Pentatonic in all 12 keys
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- C C 9b5 Pentatonic scale piano guitar
- D flat Db 9b5 Pentatonic scale piano guitar
- D D 9b5 Pentatonic scale piano guitar
- E flat Eb 9b5 Pentatonic scale piano guitar
- E E 9b5 Pentatonic scale piano guitar
- F F 9b5 Pentatonic scale piano guitar
- G flat Gb 9b5 Pentatonic scale piano guitar
- G G 9b5 Pentatonic scale piano guitar
- A flat Ab 9b5 Pentatonic scale piano guitar
- A A 9b5 Pentatonic scale piano guitar
- B flat Bb 9b5 Pentatonic scale piano guitar
- B B 9b5 Pentatonic scale piano guitar
