Guitar scale
Ab Phrygian Guitar Scale
Ab Phrygian is a seven-note scale built from Ab, A, B, Db, Eb, E, and Gb. It is the 3rd relative mode of E major. Use it to study the scale's notes, interval formula, and guitar fretboard positions.
- Notes
- AbABDbEbEGb
- Formula
- 1 b2 b3 4 5 b6 b7
- Semitones
- 0 1 3 5 7 8 10
- Parent scale
- E 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 phrygian tones across standard tuning.
Fretboard diagram
Open this scale in the fretboard tool
Start with Ab Phrygian loaded, then adjust tuning, labels, colors, fret count, and orientation.
Open in interactive fretboardCommon chords and contexts
- Use Ab Phrygian over dark Ab minor vamps when the flat 2 is part of the sound.
- It fits heavier rock, metal, Spanish-flavored ideas, and modal minor progressions.