Ab Minor Hexatonic Scale on Piano — Keyboard, Notes & Fingering

About the A flat Minor Hexatonic scale

A flat Minor Hexatonic is used for jazz and modern minor melodies. Think of it as a six-note minor scale that skips the sixth and reaches for a major seventh.

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

Four of the notes in A♭ Minor Hexatonic are black keys, A♭, B♭, D♭, and E♭.

Notes and intervals

1	AbA♭	Root
2	BbB♭	Major 2nd
3	CbC♭	Minor 3rd
4	DbD♭	Perfect 4th
5	EbE♭	Perfect 5th
6	GG	Major 7th

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

Shapes

Chromatic

Circle of Fifths

Related scales

Minor Hexatonic in other keys

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