About the A Minor Six Diminished scale
A Minor Six Diminished is a harmonic minor with an added sixth, a Barry Harris chord scale. It's used for jazz chord soloing and voice-led minor harmony.
Positions
Playable shapes for this scale up the neck. Tap any note to hear it.
8-position system
8 four-fret boxes, one per scale degree, each a single hand position with almost no shifting. The jazz and classical way, from William Leavitt's Berklee method.
Notes and intervals
| 1 | A | Root |
| 2 | B | Major 2nd |
| 3 | C | Minor 3rd |
| 4 | D | Perfect 4th |
| 5 | E | Perfect 5th |
| 6 | F | Minor 6th |
| 7 | F sharp | Major 6th |
| 8 | G sharp | Major 7th |
Shapes
Chromatic
Circle of Fifths