Interactive guitar scale
A Minor Pentatonic Scale on Guitar
A minor pentatonic is the most common first soloing scale on guitar. Its five notes fit blues, rock, pop and many minor-key progressions without creating much harmonic friction.
Fretboard map
A Minor Pentatonic Scale on Guitar notes
Root note Scale noteTap a note to hear it
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
e
B
G
D
A
E
How to use this scale
Start with the fifth-position box, target A on strong beats and use C or G for expressive bends. Over a blues in A, add Eb to turn it into the A blues scale.
A useful exercise
Play the shape in groups of three notes, then improvise using only two adjacent strings. Fewer notes force stronger rhythm and phrasing.
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