

This is sometimes called the " truck driver's gear change" and shows up frequently in pop, rock, and dance music. In popular music Ī-flat minor is also used in Frederick Loewe's score to the 1956 musical play My Fair Lady the Second Servants' Chorus is set in A-flat minor.Īnother example of popular music in A-flat minor is Walkin' on the Sun by Smash Mouth.Just jumping up the key up a semitone without a chord progression to lead into the modulation is a very common musical trope! Simply change the key signature in-between two major sections of a song, such as transitioning from a verse to the chorus - the already-present transition prevents the sudden modulation from sounding out of place or overly abrupt.

Max Bruch's Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra, Op.110 (although the key signature of this section uses only 6 flats, not 7) An early section of the last movement of Beethoven's Piano Sonata No.The Funeral March in Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Sonata No.In some scores, the A ♭ minor key signature in the bass clef is written with the flat for the F on the second line from the top. Because of this, there are few works in A-flat minor. More often, pieces in a minor mode that have A ♭ as the tonic are written in the enharmonic key, G-sharp minor, because it has a simpler key signature.

Its enharmonic equivalent is G-sharp minor.Ī-flat minor is rarely used as the main key of a piece of music. Its relative major is C-flat major, and its parallel major is A-flat major. A-flat minor is a minor scale starting on A ♭.
