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Dive into the A Minor Pentatonic Scale with Guitar Charts. Explore our interactive fretboard diagrams and listen to audio examples for each pattern. Ideal for guitarists seeking to understand and play the A Minor Pentatonic Scale effortlessly.
The Minor Pentatonic Scale is built using the formula: 1 b3 4 5 b7. You can see that the Minor Pentatonic scale uses the intervals: root, minor third, perfect fourth, perfect fifth, and minor seventh. The minor third and minor seventh intervals are what makes this scale a minor scale.
To memorize the A minor pentatonic scale, practice playing the scale ascending and descending. Start with the root note of A, then play C, D, E, G, and then a higher A. Use the 5th position pattern to play these notes, then work your way back down the scale, starting with that higher A and climbing back down to G, E, G, C, and the low A.
The minor pentatonic scale is a five note scale based on the natural minor but without the 2nd and and sixth scale degrees. The minor pentatonic scale formula is 1, b3, 4, 5, b7. This scale is most commonly broken up into what's known as the five pentatonic positions as shown in the diagrams below.
Pentatonic Scale Guitar Shapes. Minor pentatonic scales for guitar in TAB, fret diagrams & notation. Learn then play along to free backing tracks.
Use 1st and 3rd for strings 1, 2, 5 and 6 and 1st and 4th for the middle strings. Most often the finger you use will be determined by the lick you are playing. Video Lesson From Blues Lead Course Here. See the scale patterns, suggested fingerings and alternate fingerings here!
The A minor pentatonic scale is one of the most widely used guitar scales of all, particularly in the blues genre. In this lesson we’ll take a deep dive into the scale and explore some examples of its many uses.
The popular approach to learning the scale on the guitar fretboard is through five different two note per string minor pentatonic scale positions. In this lesson, we’ll be exploring these five different minor pentatonic guitar scale patterns, as seen in my video lesson below:
In this beginner & intermediate guitar lesson, you will learn the guitar’s five minor pentatonic scale positions. To help you turn the scales into music, you’ll find scale charts plus FREE A minor jam tracks for you to practice the patterns over.
The minor pentatonic scale is made up of five notes per octave as opposed to a seven note (heptatonic) scale like the major and minor scales. It’s comprised of the 1, 3, 4, 5, and 7 notes of the natural minor scale. The black dots in each diagram below indicate the scale root notes.