Scale · Pentatonics

D 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.

Instrument

Tuning

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D minor pentatonic scale on the Guitar neck42 positions across 15 frets, E A D G B E tuning.FGACDFGACDFGACDFGACDFGACDFGACDFGACDFGACDFG123456789101112131415EADGBE

Notes

  1. D1
  2. Fb3
  3. G4
  4. A5
  5. Cb7

Also written as D · F · G · A · C.

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 D minor pentatonic. The roman numeral is the degree: uppercase is major, lowercase is minor, ° is diminished.

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