A Phrygian ♭4Scale
Formula
A Phrygian ♭4 on the chromatic circle
A Phrygian ♭4 is the 3rd mode of the Harmonic major family. Pick another note on the circle to open the scale that starts there.
A Phrygian ♭4 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 Phrygian ♭4
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 Phrygian ♭4 fits
Over a dominant 7♯9 chord in modern jazz and fusion: a rare colour.
A Phrygian ♭4 is mode 3 of the harmonic major family. The same notes played from each of its other degrees give the family's other modes:
- A Phrygian ♭4
- B♭ Lydian ♭3
- C Mixolydian ♭2
- D♭ Lydian augmented ♯2
- E Locrian 𝄫7
- F Harmonic major
- G Dorian ♭5
Move one note by a half step and you get a different scale:
Phrygian ♭4 scale in every key
A Phrygian ♭4 scale questions
What notes are in the A Phrygian ♭4 scale?
A B♭ C D♭ E F G. As degrees from the root: 1 ♭2 ♭3 ♭4 5 ♭6 ♭7.
What is the A Phrygian ♭4 scale formula?
1 ♭2 ♭3 ♭4 5 ♭6 ♭7, or in steps between the notes, H W H 1½ H W W (W is a whole step of two frets, H a half step of one fret, 1½ three frets).
How do you play the A Phrygian ♭4 scale on guitar?
This page draws every note of A Phrygian ♭4 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 Phrygian ♭4 scale?
Am7 (i), B♭m(maj7) (♭ii), C7 (♭III), D♭maj7♯5 (♭IV+), E°7 (v°), Fmaj7 (♭VI), Gm7♭5 (♭vii°).
When is the A Phrygian ♭4 scale used?
Over a dominant 7♯9 chord in modern jazz and fusion: a rare colour.