Scale · Pentatonics

F# 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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F# minor pentatonic scale on the Guitar neck40 positions across 15 frets, E A D G B E tuning.EF#ABC#EF#ABC#EF#ABEF#ABC#EABC#EF#ABC#EF#ABC#EF#ABC#EF#123456789101112131415EADGBE

Notes

  1. F#1
  2. Ab3
  3. B4
  4. C#5
  5. Eb7

Also written as Gb · A · B · Db · E.

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

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