About the A flat Suspended Pentatonic scale
A flat Suspended Pentatonic is a five-note scale with no third, all open fourths and fifths. It's used for modal, folk and Asian-flavored melodies.
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 | B flat | Major 2nd |
| 3 | D flat | Perfect 4th |
| 4 | E flat | Perfect 5th |
| 5 | G flat | Minor 7th |
Shapes
Chromatic
Circle of Fifths
Related scales
Suspended Pentatonic in other keys
C Suspended Pentatonic D flat Suspended Pentatonic D Suspended Pentatonic E flat Suspended Pentatonic E Suspended Pentatonic F Suspended Pentatonic G flat Suspended Pentatonic G Suspended Pentatonic A Suspended Pentatonic B flat Suspended Pentatonic B Suspended Pentatonic
Modes
The same notes, starting on a different note.
