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E♭ major pentatonic on guitar

E♭ F G B♭ C (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 10–13)

91011121314 E A D G B e 1 2 3 5 6 1 2 3 5 6 1 2

Box 2 (frets 0–4)

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

Box 3 (frets 3–6)

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

Box 4 (frets 5–8)

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Box 5 (frets 8–11)

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

Related

Other scales from E♭

E♭ minor pentatonicE♭ blues scaleE♭ major scaleE♭ dorian modeE♭ phrygian modeE♭ lydian modeE♭ mixolydian modeE♭ natural minor scaleE♭ locrian modeE♭ harmonic minor scaleE♭ melodic minor scale

Major pentatonic in other keys

CD♭DEFF♯GA♭AB♭B