Minor Pentatonic Scale Chart
This minor pentatonic guitar scale chart will help you learn the minor pentatonic guitar scale, one of the most important guitar scales for blues and rock, and also useful in jazz and other styles.
This guitar scale is perfect for improvising over rock an blues songs, and it is what a lot of the well known players from those genres use, sometimes exclusively. Jazz players also use it with other scales and arpeggios during improvisation. This chart for the minor pentatonic guitar scale will break the full scale up into five patterns which can be memorized and then put back together to enable you to play it all over the guitar fretboard.
It is important to note that the patterns shown on this minor pentatonic guitar scale chart are movable. The red dots represent the root notes of the scale, so the key you are playing in is determined by where the root note is. With the different patterns you will be able to play the minor pentatonic scale anywhere on the fretboard without needing to change positions. Learning the minor pentatonic guitar scale with this chart is a great way to get started playing guitar.
June 21 2008 04:45 pm | Guitar Scale Charts