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F♯ Minor Pentatonic Scale – Guitar

The first scale most guitarists learn for soloing: five notes, five boxes, and the sound of almost every rock and blues solo. Here it is in F♯: the notes, the whole neck, all five boxes with TAB, and a backing track to practise over.

Notes in the F♯ minor pentatonic scale

• F♯1
• Ab3
• B4
• C♯5
• Eb7

Formula: 1 – b3 – 4 – 5 – b7. Use it to solo over songs in F♯ minor, and over F♯ blues and rock progressions.

Same five notes as the A major pentatonic scale – the shapes are identical, only the home note changes.

F♯ minor pentatonic scale on the whole neck

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The 5 boxes (positions) with TAB

Each box is one hand position. Learn Box 1 first: play it up with the TAB, then back down, then move to the next box – together they cover the whole neck.

e|---------------------2-5-|
B|-----------------2-5-----|
G|-------------2-4---------|
D|---------2-4-------------|
A|-----2-4-----------------|
E|-2-5---------------------|

e|---------------------5-7-|
B|-----------------5-7-----|
G|-------------4-6---------|
D|---------4-7-------------|
A|-----4-7-----------------|
E|-5-7---------------------|

e|-------------------------------7--9--|
B|-------------------------7--10-------|
G|-------------------6--9--------------|
D|-------------7--9--------------------|
A|-------7--9--------------------------|
E|-7--9--------------------------------|

e|-------------------------------9--12-|
B|-------------------------10-12-------|
G|-------------------9--11-------------|
D|-------------9--11-------------------|
A|-------9--12-------------------------|
E|-9--12-------------------------------|

e|-------------------------------12-14-|
B|-------------------------12-14-------|
G|-------------------11-14-------------|
D|-------------11-14-------------------|
A|-------12-14-------------------------|
E|-12-14-------------------------------|

3 F♯ minor licks to play with it

Box 1 licks from the JamEase lick library, written for F♯ minor (h = hammer-on, p = pull-off, / = slide, b = bend, ~ = vibrato).

e|-------------|
B|-------------|
G|-14-16-14----|
D|----------16-|
A|-------------|
E|-------------|

e|---------------------|
B|-17\-14--------------|
G|---------16--14------|
D|-----------------16--|
A|---------------------|
E|---------------------|

e|-----14~-|
B|-17b-----|
G|---------|
D|---------|
A|---------|
E|---------|

F♯ minor backing track

Play the boxes over this, starting and ending phrases on the gold root notes.

Slow blues backing track in F# minor | 78 bpm – Beardly Jam Tracks

Songs in F♯ minor

These songs are in F♯ minor, so this is a scale that fits for soloing over them:

• Wonderwall – Oasis
• The Night We Met – Lord Huron
• Numb – Linkin Park
• Pompeii – Bastille
• I Want It That Way – Backstreet Boys
• There Is A Light That Never Goes Out – The Smiths
• Wildflower – Billie Eilish
• Video Games – Lana Del Rey
• Snuff – Slipknot
• Galway Girl – Ed Sheeran
• Dance Monkey – Tones And I
• My Sweet Lord – George Harrison

All songs in F♯ minor →

Other scales in F♯

• F♯ Major Pentatonic Scale
• F♯ Blues Scale
• F♯ Major Blues Scale
• F♯ Major Scale
• F♯ Natural Minor Scale
• F♯ Dorian Mode
• F♯ Mixolydian Mode
• F♯ Phrygian Mode
• F♯ Lydian Mode
• F♯ Harmonic Minor Scale
• F♯ Melodic Minor Scale

Minor Pentatonic Scale in other keys

• C Minor Pentatonic Scale
• C♯ Minor Pentatonic Scale
• D Minor Pentatonic Scale
• E♭ Minor Pentatonic Scale
• E Minor Pentatonic Scale
• F Minor Pentatonic Scale
• G Minor Pentatonic Scale
• G♯ Minor Pentatonic Scale
• A Minor Pentatonic Scale
• B♭ Minor Pentatonic Scale
• B Minor Pentatonic Scale