Ab 9b5 Pentatonic Scale on Piano — Keyboard, Notes & Fingering

About the A flat 9b5 Pentatonic scale

A flat 9b5 Pentatonic is used for jazz solos over altered and half-diminished chords. Think of it as a five-note scale with a minor third and a flat fifth.

Its notes are A♭, B♭, C♭, D, and G♭. The formula is W H 1½ 4 semitones W.

The black keys A♭, B♭, and G♭ belong to the key.

Notes and intervals

1	AbA♭	Root
2	BbB♭	Major 2nd
3	CbC♭	Minor 3rd
4	DD	Diminished 5th
5	GbG♭	Minor 7th

Steps	W H 1½ 4 semitones W
Semitones	2-1-3-4-2
Degrees	1 2 ♭3 ♭5 ♭7

Shapes

Chromatic

Circle of Fifths

Related scales

9b5 Pentatonic in other keys

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