About the A flat Minor Hexatonic scale
A flat Minor Hexatonic is a six-note minor scale that skips the sixth and reaches for a major seventh. It's used for jazz and modern minor melodies.
Positions
Playable shapes for this scale up the neck. Tap any note to hear it.
6-position system
6 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 | A flat | Root |
| 2 | B flat | Major 2nd |
| 3 | C flat | Minor 3rd |
| 4 | D flat | Perfect 4th |
| 5 | E flat | Perfect 5th |
| 6 | G | Major 7th |
Shapes
Chromatic
Circle of Fifths
