Guitar scale
Ab Minor Pentatonic Guitar Scale
Ab Minor Pentatonic is a five-note scale built from Ab, B, Db, Eb, and Gb. Use it to study the scale's notes, interval formula, and guitar fretboard positions.
- Notes
- AbBDbEbGb
- Formula
- 1 b3 4 5 b7
- Semitones
- 0 3 5 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 pentatonic tones across standard tuning.
Fretboard diagram
Open this scale in the fretboard tool
Start with Ab Minor Pentatonic loaded, then adjust tuning, labels, colors, fret count, and orientation.
Open in interactive fretboardCommon chords and contexts
- Use Ab minor pentatonic over Ab minor chords, power-chord riffs, and many blues or rock solos.
- Its five-note layout removes the half-step tensions from natural minor, which makes it easy to phrase on guitar.