F, G, A flat, B, E - help :)

Try the result of a musical scale-finding tool (located via google).

Thanks mate

Hello,

Scales are always a matter of context.

If you have any score or (even better) sound examples of the piece you're working on, it'd be easier to help out - and a lot more informative than a software arbitrarily spitting out a heap of scales.

At a first glance, this looks like a melody over a dominant chord - it might be more comprehensible if you look at the notes as tensions in that case.

e.g.:

G7(b9/13) - quite the usual chord in Jazz!

F: minor seventh (7)
G: root note (1)
Ab: flat ninth (b9)
B: major third (3)
E: major thirteenth (13)

A scale often used with this chord is Half-Tone-Whole-Tone (HTWT), which incidentally shows up on the scale finder, though with the wrong root note.

G - Ab - Bb - B - C# - D - E - F

which is

1 - b9 - #9 - 3 - #11 - 5 - 13 - 7

Good thing about this scale is that there is no avoid note!

Just a wild guess though! You'll have to look where these notes lead next (in this case probably a C major chord) - hence context!

Cheers,
Moritz

This is probably way beyond what you are looking for, but it could be the first mode of Harmonic Major or called Ionian Flat 6.

So basically a C major scale with a lowered 6.

C - D - E - F - G -Ab - B

I personally only use this sound when improvising jazz and can't say I've ever composed using it, but it does have some nice tension over a Maj7 chord.


(http://docs.solfege.org/3.21/C/scales/ham.html) Some info on Harmonic Major for anyone interested.