Guitar scales

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.

Formula: 1 – b3 – 4 – 5 – b7. The shapes are movable: learn them in one key and slide them to any other. Here it is in A, the most common key to learn it in.

A minor pentatonic scale on the whole neck

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A Minor Pentatonic Scale on the whole neck, frets 0-15. Gold = the root (A).

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