About the A flat 9b5 Pentatonic scale
A flat 9b5 Pentatonic is a five-note scale with a minor third and a flat fifth. It's used for jazz solos over altered and half-diminished chords.
Positions
Playable shapes for this scale up the neck. Tap any note to hear it.
Pentatonic boxes
The five shapes blues and rock are built on, the first scale most guitarists ever solo with, one box per note up the neck.
Notes and intervals
| 1 | A flat | Root |
| 2 | B flat | Major 2nd |
| 3 | C flat | Minor 3rd |
| 4 | D | Diminished 5th |
| 5 | G flat | Minor 7th |
Shapes
Chromatic
Circle of Fifths
