Scale · Pentatonics

G# 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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G# minor pentatonic scale on the Guitar neck37 positions across 15 frets, E A D G B E tuning.F#G#BC#D#F#BC#D#F#G#BD#F#G#BC#D#G#BC#D#F#G#BC#D#F#G#BC#F#G#BC#D#F#123456789101112131415EADGBE

Notes

  1. G#1
  2. Bb3
  3. C#4
  4. D#5
  5. F#b7

Also written as Ab · B · Db · Eb · Gb.

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

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