Guitar scale
Ab Minor Blues Guitar Scale
Ab Minor Blues is a six-note scale built from Ab, B, Db, D, Eb, and Gb. Use it to study the scale's notes, interval formula, and guitar fretboard positions.
- Notes
- AbBDbDEbGb
- Formula
- 1 b3 4 b5 5 b7
- Semitones
- 0 3 5 6 7 10
How to read this scale
The notes are shown as pitch classes first. Square markers represent Ab root notes in the fretboard view, while circular markers represent the other notes in the scale.
Use the interactive fretboard to locate the Ab root notes and connect the remaining minor blues tones across standard tuning.
Fretboard diagram
Open this scale in the fretboard tool
Start with Ab Minor Blues loaded, then adjust tuning, labels, colors, fret count, and orientation.
Open in interactive fretboardCommon chords and contexts
- Use Ab minor blues over Ab minor blues, rock riffs, and many dominant blues progressions.
- It adds the flat 5 blue note to minor pentatonic for extra pull and grit.