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B major pentatonic on guitar

B C♯ D♯ F♯ G♯ (1 2 3 5 6)

Country, soul, sweet major solos. The same five shapes as the minor pentatonic of its relative minor (C major pent = A minor pent), with a different home note.

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 6–9)

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Box 2 (frets 8–12)

78910111213 E A D G B e 2 3 5 6 1 2 3 5 6 1 2 3

Box 3 (frets 11–14)

101112131415 E A D G B e 3 5 6 1 2 3 5 6 1 2 3 5

Box 4 (frets 1–4)

12345 E A D G B e 5 6 1 2 3 5 6 1 2 3 5 6

Box 5 (frets 4–7)

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Related

Other scales from B

B minor pentatonicB blues scaleB major scaleB dorian modeB phrygian modeB lydian modeB mixolydian modeB natural minor scaleB locrian modeB harmonic minor scaleB melodic minor scale

Major pentatonic in other keys

CD♭DE♭EFF♯GA♭AB♭