Guitar scale
F Natural Minor (Aeolian) Guitar Scale
F Natural Minor (Aeolian) is a seven-note scale built from F, G, Ab, Bb, C, Db, and Eb. It is the 6th relative mode of Ab major. It is also commonly called F Aeolian. Use it to study the scale's notes, interval formula, and guitar fretboard positions.
- Notes
- FGAbBbCDbEb
- Formula
- 1 2 b3 4 5 b6 b7
- Semitones
- 0 2 3 5 7 8 10
- Parent scale
- Ab major
- Also called
- F Aeolian
How to read this scale
The notes are shown as pitch classes first. Square markers represent F root notes in the fretboard view, while circular markers represent the other notes in the scale.
Use the interactive fretboard to locate the F root notes and connect the remaining natural minor (aeolian) tones across standard tuning.
This same note pattern is also commonly called F Aeolian.
Fretboard diagram
Open this scale in the fretboard tool
Start with F Natural Minor (Aeolian) loaded, then adjust tuning, labels, colors, fret count, and orientation.
Open in interactive fretboardCommon chords and contexts
- Use F natural minor over F minor, Fm7, and minor-key progressions.
- It is the standard minor scale sound and the 6th mode of its relative major scale.