About the A flat Blues Minor Pentatonic scale
A flat Blues Minor Pentatonic is a dark five-note scale with a flat sixth in place of the fifth. It's used for blues and minor-key solos that want extra weight.
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 | C flat | Minor 3rd |
| 3 | D flat | Perfect 4th |
| 4 | F flat | Minor 6th |
| 5 | G flat | Minor 7th |
Shapes
Chromatic
Circle of Fifths
Related scales
Blues Minor Pentatonic in other keys
C Blues Minor Pentatonic D flat Blues Minor Pentatonic D Blues Minor Pentatonic E flat Blues Minor Pentatonic E Blues Minor Pentatonic F Blues Minor Pentatonic G flat Blues Minor Pentatonic G Blues Minor Pentatonic A Blues Minor Pentatonic B flat Blues Minor Pentatonic B Blues Minor Pentatonic
Modes
The same notes, starting on a different note.
