A Harmonic minorScale
Formula
A Harmonic minor on the chromatic circle
A Harmonic minor is the 1st mode of the Harmonic minor family. Pick another note on the circle to open the scale that starts there.
A Harmonic minor across the fretboard
Every note of the scale up to the 16th fret, named by its degree. The root is a ring. Step through the five CAGED positions one at a time in the scale library.
Chords in A Harmonic minor
Stack every other note of the scale from each degree and you get its chords. Open any of them in the chord library.
Where A Harmonic minor fits
Minor with a raised 7th, which gives a minor key its V7: classical music, neoclassical metal, and Middle-Eastern and Eastern European folk.
A Harmonic minor is mode 1 of the harmonic minor family. The same notes played from each of its other degrees give the family's other modes:
Move one note by a half step and you get a different scale:
Harmonic minor scale in every key
A Harmonic minor scale questions
What notes are in the A Harmonic minor scale?
A B C D E F G♯. As degrees from the root: 1 2 ♭3 4 5 ♭6 7.
What is the A Harmonic minor scale formula?
1 2 ♭3 4 5 ♭6 7, or in steps between the notes, W H W W H 1½ H (W is a whole step of two frets, H a half step of one fret, 1½ three frets).
How do you play the A Harmonic minor scale on guitar?
This page draws every note of A Harmonic minor up to the 16th fret, each named by its degree with the root as a ring. To learn it a few frets at a time, open it in the scale library and step through its five CAGED positions, from the G shape to the E shape to the D shape to the C shape to the A shape.
What chords are in the A Harmonic minor scale?
Am(maj7) (i), Bm7♭5 (ii°), Cmaj7♯5 (♭III+), Dm7 (iv), E7 (V), Fmaj7 (♭VI), G♯°7 (vii°).
When is the A Harmonic minor scale used?
Minor with a raised 7th, which gives a minor key its V7: classical music, neoclassical metal, and Middle-Eastern and Eastern European folk.