Originally Posted by: stacknyI think I accidentally stumbled across a jazz scale or a piece of a scale while messing around on some backing tracks. I was soloing in A flat. What scale is this?

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Ab major I assume? So Ab was your root?

D-E-F-G-A-B-C-D-E-F-G-A-B-C-D-E-F

Yeah, that's one exotic scale.

A-B-C-D-E-F-G-A

Looks like Anatural Minor to me. Not sure how that sounded over an Ab backing...check that, I'm pretty sure of how that sounded over an Ab backing.