Scale · Pentatonics

C# minor pentatonic

Every guitarist's first scale. Whole careers in rock and blues fit inside these five notes.

Notes going up, in the Guitar sound.

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C# minor pentatonic scale on the Guitar neck39 positions across 15 frets, E A D G B E tuning.EF#G#BC#EF#BC#EF#G#BEF#G#BC#EG#BC#EF#G#BC#EF#G#BC#EF#G#BC#EF#123456789101112131415EADGBE

Notes

  1. C#1
  2. Eb3
  3. F#4
  4. G#5
  5. Bb7

Also written as Db · E · Gb · Ab · B.

Formula

A 5-note scale — the distances are in the degrees.

Degrees

1 · b3 · 4 · 5 · b7

Chords in the scale

Triads that fit entirely inside C# minor pentatonic. The roman numeral is the degree: uppercase is major, lowercase is minor, ° is diminished.

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