Guitar scale
Ab Mixolydian Guitar Scale
Ab Mixolydian is a seven-note scale built from Ab, Bb, C, Db, Eb, F, and Gb. It is the 5th relative mode of Db major. Use it to study the scale's notes, interval formula, and guitar fretboard positions.
- Notes
- AbBbCDbEbFGb
- Formula
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 b7
- Semitones
- 0 2 4 5 7 9 10
- Parent scale
- Db major
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 mixolydian tones across standard tuning.
Fretboard diagram
Open this scale in the fretboard tool
Start with Ab Mixolydian loaded, then adjust tuning, labels, colors, fret count, and orientation.
Open in interactive fretboardCommon chords and contexts
- Use Ab Mixolydian over Ab7 dominant chords and major blues progressions.
- The flat 7 makes it useful for rock, blues, funk, country, and dominant-chord vamps.