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A minor pentatonic on guitar

A C D E G (1 ♭3 4 5 ♭7)

The rock and blues lead workhorse. Box 1 has the root under your first finger on the 6th string; the five boxes link end to end up the neck.

The whole neck

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rootscale noteLow E string at the bottom.
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The 5 box positions

Boxes: the standard five shapes, two notes per string, one finger per fret. Learn one, then the next one up: they share an edge. Dots show scale degrees: 1 is the root.

Box 1 (frets 5–8)

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Box 2 (frets 7–10)

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Box 3 (frets 9–13)

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Box 4 (frets 12–15)

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Box 5 (frets 2–5)

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Related

Other scales from A

A major pentatonicA blues scaleA major scaleA dorian modeA phrygian modeA lydian modeA mixolydian modeA natural minor scaleA locrian modeA harmonic minor scaleA melodic minor scale

Minor pentatonic in other keys

CD♭DE♭EFF♯GA♭B♭B