The Minor Pentatonic Scale Box
Patterns on Guitar Fretboard
This is a very helpful page for learning the minor
pentatonic scale for
guitar. The images below covers all the minor
pentatonic scale patterns in all positions on
guitar. You can easily pass one position to other
and practice all the minor pentatonic scale guitar
positions using this page. The sample scale is given
in G and all the red notes refers to the root note.
You can practice these minor pentatonic scale box patterns just
shifting the position (using a different root note).
We recommend you to memorize this box patterns in
string and position pairs like 3th position-root is
on A string, and so on.
1st position guitar minor pentatonic scale box pattern in G
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2nd position guitar minor pentatonic scale box pattern in G |
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3th position guitar minor pentatonic scale box pattern in G |
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4th position guitar minor pentatonic scale box pattern in G |
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5th position guitar minor pentatonic scale box pattern in G |
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You can study
Guitar Intervals page on MyGuitarWorkshop
and try to understand the intervals used
in minor pentatonic scale. It also will improve
your ability to find intervals on guitar
fretboard.
And again please remember to practice all these
minor pentatonic scale box patterns in all keys. Get
your guitar, turn on the radio and find the key
of a song, try minor pentatonic scale, major
pentatonic
scale or blues scales over it.
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