SCALE REFERENCE

A♭ Major Blues

A♭ – B♭ – C♭ – C – E♭ – F1 2 b3 3 5 6

Also written G♯ Major Blues — the same pitches spelled the other way.

Major pentatonic with a chromatic passing note between the 2nd and 3rd — the bright, country-and-western side of blues phrasing.

Notes & degrees

A♭1B♭2C♭b3C3E♭5F6

Notes	Ab, Bb, Cb, C, Eb, F
Steps	2 – 1 – 1 – 3 – 2 – 3 (semitones)

Piano

Guitar & ukulele — every position (frets 0–12)

Root notes are red. The full map of the scale on the guitar neck; the common box patterns are groups of these notes.

The same scale on a ukulele in standard G–C–E–A tuning.

Other scales on A♭

Core scales & modes

A♭ Major A♭ Natural Minor A♭ Harmonic Minor A♭ Melodic Minor A♭ Dorian A♭ Phrygian A♭ Lydian A♭ Mixolydian A♭ Locrian

Pentatonic & blues

A♭ Major Pentatonic A♭ Minor Pentatonic A♭ Blues

Jazz & altered

A♭ Harmonic Major A♭ Phrygian Dominant A♭ Lydian Dominant A♭ Altered A♭ Bebop Dominant

Symmetric

A♭ Whole Tone A♭ Diminished (Whole–Half)A♭ Diminished (Half–Whole)A♭ Augmented Scale

World & exotic

A♭ Hungarian Minor A♭ Double Harmonic Major A♭ Neapolitan Minor

Major Blues on another root

C C♯D♭D E♭E F F♯G A♭G♯A B♭B

Keep exploring

See the diatonic chords with audio in the Scale & Chord Finder, find where a key sits among the others on the Circle of Fifths, or start the free Cloud Atelier music guides.