

And for those looking to brush up on the basics or just dive into scales for the first time, Fender Play has a wealth of videos that offer step-by-step guides of basic scales that will serve you well. Practicing guitar scales also makes you more familiar with the notes on your fretboard, develops your musical ear, and provides a framework for creating melodies for your own original songs.įor those that want to expand their scale horizons, the available Player Pack on the Fender Tune app features a dynamic scale library with a variety of diagrams and patterns for any variation, flavor, and key. Guitar scales are organized sequences of notes played in an ascending or descending order that help you build finger strength and dexterity. In popular music Ī-flat minor is also used in Frederick Loewe's score to the 1956 musical play My Fair Lady the Second Servants' Chorus is set in A-flat minor.Īnother example of popular music in A-flat minor is Walkin' on the Sun by Smash Mouth.You might have heard the word "scales" throughout your guitar journey, but some players might not know exactly what they are. Moritz Moszkowski used it for his piano étude, opus 72 number 13.Leoš Janáček uses it for his violin sonata and the organ solo of his Glagolitic Mass.the Evocación from Book I of Isaac Albéniz's Iberia.

88a (although at least one two-piano transcription of this uses a 6-flat signature, similarly to the Op. 110 Beethoven example) Max Bruch's Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra, Op.110 (although the key signature of this section uses only 6 flats, not 7) An early section of the last movement of Beethoven's Piano Sonata No.The Funeral March in Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Sonata No.In some scores, the A ♭ minor key signature in the bass clef is written with the flat for the F on the second line from the top. Because of this, there are few works in A-flat minor. More often, pieces in a minor mode that have A ♭ as the tonic are written in the enharmonic key, G-sharp minor, because it has a simpler key signature. Its enharmonic equivalent is G-sharp minor.Ī-flat minor is rarely used as the main key of a piece of music. Its relative major is C-flat major, and its parallel major is A-flat major. A-flat minor is a minor scale starting on A ♭.
