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Minor pentatonic scale
The minor pentatonic scale: 1 ♭3 4 5 ♭7, five notes in every key in one table, on piano and guitar, played at a tap, with MIDI and WAV to take.
In the minor pentatonic scale, the top note here is A5, 880.0 Hz. Mika stops there.Tap Hear it, or tap any note on the board.
A C D E G
The notes of the A minor pentatonic scale
A C D E G
Formula: 1 ♭3 4 5 ♭7. Steps from note to note: 3 2 2 3 2 semitones (one and a half, whole, whole, one and a half, whole).
Natural A minor without its 2nd and 6th (B and F). The same five notes are the C major pentatonic scale.
The minor pentatonic scale in all twelve keys
| Root | Notes |
|---|---|
| C | C E♭ F G B♭ |
| C♯ | C♯ E F♯ G♯ B |
| D | D F G A C |
| E♭ | E♭ G♭ A♭ B♭ D♭ |
| E | E G A B D |
| F | F A♭ B♭ C E♭ |
| F♯ | F♯ A B C♯ E |
| G | G B♭ C D F |
| G♯ | G♯ B C♯ D♯ F♯ |
| A | A C D E G |
| B♭ | B♭ D♭ E♭ F A♭ |
| B | B D E F♯ A |
The scale of the solo
Minor pentatonic is the natural minor scale with the two notes that clash most taken out, the 2nd and the ♭6. What is left fits over minor chords, over dominant-seventh blues and over a lot of rock in major keys, which is why it is the first scale for improvising. Add one note, the ♭5, and it becomes the blues scale.
More scales
Minor pentatonic scale on guitar Minor pentatonic scale on bass A minor pentatonic scale E minor pentatonic scale C minor pentatonic scale D minor pentatonic scale
How this page works
Hear it plays the scale up and down at 100 BPM on one of four Brumm sounds. Take it gives the same notes as a MIDI file and a WAV. − and + move the root. Every note here is computed from the formula.
Sources
Scales and modes: Open Music Theory, musictheory.net. Piano fingerings: the standard scale-book fingerings (ABRSM scale books; Hanon, The Virtuoso Pianist, part 3). Trumpet valves: the standard B♭ trumpet fingering chart (Yamaha, Bach). Hz: A4 = 440 Hz, ISO 16.
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