About the A flat Iwato (Japanese) scale
A flat Iwato (Japanese) is a dark Japanese five-note scale with two flat fifths of space. It's used for traditional Japanese and film music.
Learn morePositions
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 | A | Minor 2nd |
| 3 | D flat | Perfect 4th |
| 4 | D | Diminished 5th |
| 5 | G flat | Minor 7th |
Shapes
Chromatic
Circle of Fifths
Related scales
Iwato (Japanese) in other keys
C Iwato (Japanese) D flat Iwato (Japanese) D Iwato (Japanese) E flat Iwato (Japanese) E Iwato (Japanese) F Iwato (Japanese) G flat Iwato (Japanese) G Iwato (Japanese) A Iwato (Japanese) B flat Iwato (Japanese) B Iwato (Japanese)
Modes
The same notes, starting on a different note.
