A♭ major blues pentatonic (Ab major blues pentatonic) scale on bass
A♭ major blues pentatonic has 5 notes: A♭ B♭ D♭ E♭ F. Degrees: 1 2 4 5 6. Formula: W W+H W W W+H.
What notes are in the A♭ major blues pentatonic scale?
A♭, B♭, D♭, E♭ and F. It has 5 notes; its formula in whole and half steps is W W+H W W W+H.
What does A♭ major blues pentatonic sound like, and when do you use it?
No 3rd, with a 6th: open, folk and Eastern at once. Use it over sus2, 6sus.
Chord progressions to improvise with A♭ major blues pentatonic
In Jam mode (the Jam button above) a band of grand piano, upright bass and drums (recorded instruments) plays these progressions as swing, bossa, groove or ballad, and the fretboard lights up the notes of each chord as it plays. It's a backing track made for this scale in A♭:
- Blues (I7–IV7–V7): 12 bars over A♭7, D♭7 and E♭7. The 12-bar blues: three 7 chords with the scale on top. The clash between the ♭3 and the chord's 3rd is the blues.
A♭ major blues pentatonic positions on bass
In standard tuning (E A D G), with 2 notes per string, A♭ major blues pentatonic is played in 5 positions along the neck:
- Position 1: frets 3 to 6 (starts on the root)
- Position 2: frets 6 to 9
- Position 3: frets 8 to 11
- Position 4: frets 10 to 13
- Position 5: frets 1 to 4
Same notes as
D♭ major pentatonic · B♭ minor pentatonic · E♭ Egyptian (suspended) · A♭ Yo
Major blues pentatonic in other keys
On other instruments
A♭ major blues pentatonic on piano · A♭ major blues pentatonic on guitar · All scales