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D♭ major pentatonic on guitar

D♭ E♭ F A♭ B♭ (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.
Open it on the interactive fretboard

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 8–11)

789101112 E A D G B e 1 2 3 5 6 1 2 3 5 6 1 2

Box 2 (frets 10–14)

9101112131415 E A D G B e 2 3 5 6 1 2 3 5 6 1 2 3

Box 3 (frets 1–4)

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

Box 4 (frets 3–6)

234567 E A D G B e 5 6 1 2 3 5 6 1 2 3 5 6

Box 5 (frets 6–9)

5678910 E A D G B e 6 1 2 3 5 6 1 2 3 5 6 1

Related

Other scales from D♭

D♭ minor pentatonicD♭ blues scaleD♭ major scaleD♭ dorian modeD♭ phrygian modeD♭ lydian modeD♭ mixolydian modeD♭ natural minor scaleD♭ locrian modeD♭ harmonic minor scaleD♭ melodic minor scale

Major pentatonic in other keys

CDE♭EFF♯GA♭AB♭B