About the A flat Bebop Melodic Minor scale
A flat Bebop Melodic Minor is used for bebop solos over minor and minor-major chords. Think of it as a melodic minor with a chromatic passing tone added. It is A♭ Diminished with the fifth raised.
Its notes are A♭, B♭, C♭, D♭, E♭, E, F, and G. The formula is W H W W H H W H.
Also called Minor Six Diminished and Barry Harris Minor Sixth.
The open-string notes E, G, and B all sit inside this scale. The lowest A♭ on a standard-tuned guitar sits at the 4th fret of the low E string. Capo the first fret to play A♭ Bebop Melodic Minor with G-shape fingerings.
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 | AbA♭ | Root |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | BbB♭ | Major 2nd |
| 3 | CbC♭ | Minor 3rd |
| 4 | DbD♭ | Perfect 4th |
| 5 | EbE♭ | Perfect 5th |
| 6 | EE | Augmented 5th |
| 7 | FF | Major 6th |
| 8 | GG | Major 7th |
| Steps | W H W W H H W H |
|---|---|
| Semitones | 2-1-2-2-1-1-2-1 |
| Degrees | 1 2 ♭3 4 5 ♯5 6 7 |
Shapes
Chromatic
Circle of Fifths
Related scales
Bebop Melodic Minor in other keys
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