Relative Scales of Ab Major for guitar: SCALE of A Flat major, F minor, and E Flat Mixolydian. THE BEST CHARTS of the entire fingerboard.
Relative scales are those that are made up of the same notes, and therefore have the same structure and arrangement on the fretboard. But obviously these are different scales with different tonalities. This is very useful to know to get the most out of learning guitar scales.
Note: Scales are organized by their structural relationship, not their tonal relationship.
The green circles mark the Tonic, the blue ones the Dominant or 5th, and the yellow ones the Mediant or 3rd. You can see how the notes colored in green, blue and yellow form Ab Major chords.
Ab Major Scale Guitar
Relative Scales of Ab Major: F Minor
Scale with the same notes as the Ab Major scale and the same structure, but the function of each note has changed. In this way the note of F becomes the tonic, C is the 5th, and Ab becomes the 3rd. You can see how the notes colored in green, blue and yellow form F minor chords.
Music Modes
With this same positional structure in the fingerboard, we can build other Modes, depending on the Tonality of the scale. For example, we can create with the previous structure, the Mixolydian Mode in the key of Eb. Below we see the scale of Eb in Mixolydian, since Eb is the 5th note of the Ab major scale, and as we know, from that musical degree the Mixolydian mode would be formed. Music Modes.
Relative Scales of Ab Major: Eb Mixolydian
Other Relative Scales
Relative Scales Ordered by their Structural Relationship, since each Major Scale, Minor Scale, and Mixolydian Mode are made up of the SAME NOTES. Although these scales have the same structure, their Tonalities are Different, being constituted as follows: