Ab Melodic Minor Scale — Notes, Chords & Free MIDI

Minor with both the sixth and seventh raised — classically on the way up only. It keeps the minor third while borrowing the major scale’s top half and its leading tone. In Ab Melodic Minor the notes are Ab, Bb, Cb, Db, Eb, F, G, written with 7 flats (Bb, Eb, Ab, Db, Gb, Cb, Fb), plus F and G written in. Its relative major is Cb Major. The interval that gives it its sound is a minor third under a major sixth and seventh. This page presets the scale tool to Ab Melodic Minor — play it, or download it as MIDI with or without the chords.

The notes of the Ab Melodic Minor scale

Chords in the key of Ab Melodic Minor

Stack a third and a fifth from the scale on every degree and you get the chords that belong to this key. Tick diatonic chords before downloading to put all 7 of them in the MIDI file after the scale itself.

Related keys

• Cb Major — relative major — the key signature this scale is written with
• Ab Major — parallel major — the same tonic, a different third

Where the Melodic Minor scale is used

jazz (where it is played in both directions), classical melodic writing, and fusion.

How it works

Choose a root note and a scale, and this tool builds a MIDI file containing the scale played ascending and descending in quarter notes. Enable diatonic chords to also include the triad built on every degree of the scale — a quick way to hear which chords belong to a key. Press play preview to hear the exact notes before downloading. This page arrives preset to Ab Melodic Minor, so the preview and the download both start on Ab4 and climb through the scale from there.

What can you do with a scale MIDI file?

• Drag it into your DAW as a reference lane while writing melodies.
• Learn unfamiliar scales — modes, pentatonics, harmonic minor — by seeing them on a piano roll.
• Feed it to arpeggiators or samplers that expect incoming MIDI.

A Ab Melodic Minor reference lane earns its keep fast: with Ab, Bb, Cb, Db, Eb, F, G laid out on the piano roll, one glance tells you whether a note in your melody belongs to the scale or is a deliberate colour tone.

Want full generated tracks instead of raw scales? Open the MIDI Maker studio and let the generator write melodies in Ab Melodic Minor for you.

The melodic minor scale in every key

• C Melodic Minor
• Db Melodic Minor
• D Melodic Minor
• Eb Melodic Minor
• E Melodic Minor
• F Melodic Minor
• Gb Melodic Minor
• G Melodic Minor
• A Melodic Minor
• Bb Melodic Minor
• B Melodic Minor

More scales starting on Ab

• Ab Major
• Ab Dorian
• Ab Phrygian
• Ab Lydian
• Ab Mixolydian
• Ab Minor
• Ab Locrian
• Ab Major Pentatonic
• Ab Minor Pentatonic
• Ab Blues
• Ab Harmonic Minor

Or head back to the scale to MIDI tool to build any combination yourself.

Keep building: chords, drums and more

• I–V–vi–IV in Ab Major
• vi–IV–I–V in Ab Major
• I–IV–V–IV in Ab Major
• I–vi–IV–V in Ab Major
• ii–V–I in Ab Major
• I–vi–ii–V in Ab Major
• Drum MIDI generator
• Audio to MIDI converter

Frequently asked questions

What notes are in the Ab Melodic Minor scale?

The Ab Melodic Minor scale contains 7 notes: Ab, Bb, Cb, Db, Eb, F, G. Measured against the major scale that is 1 2 b3 4 5 6 7, and the step pattern is W H W W W W H. The MIDI file plays them ascending and descending in quarter notes starting from Ab4.

What chords are in the key of Ab Melodic Minor?

Stacking thirds on each degree gives i Abm, ii Bbm, bIII+ Cb+, IV Db, V Eb, vi° F°, vii° G°. Tick "diatonic chords" before downloading and the MIDI file includes all 7 of them after the scale.

Is this Ab Melodic Minor MIDI file free to use?

Yes — the download is free, requires no sign-up, and the generated MIDI is royalty-free for personal and commercial projects. A scale is not copyrightable in any case.

How do I use the scale MIDI in my DAW?

Drag the downloaded .mid file onto an instrument track in any DAW (Ableton Live, FL Studio, Logic Pro, Cubase, Reaper, Bitwig, Studio One). It appears on the piano roll as regular notes you can edit, transpose, or feed into an arpeggiator.