Scale · Pentatonics

E 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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E minor pentatonic scale on the Guitar neck42 positions across 15 frets, E A D G B E tuning.EGABDEGABDEGABDEGABDEGABDEGABDEGABDEGABDEG123456789101112131415EADGBE

Notes

  1. E1
  2. Gb3
  3. A4
  4. B5
  5. Db7

Also written as E · G · A · B · D.

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

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