Five Positions Of The Pentatonic Minor Scale

The five positions of pentatonic minor for guitar and bass. Below you will see the full version of the E pentatonic minor scale, showing where each position should be played in E pentatonic minor on the guitar. You can also see where all of the root notes are on the full diagram of E pentatonic minor.

* Note that the positions overlap, for instance position two is simply the top half of position one mated with the bottom half of position 3.


All of these positions fit together perfectly and will always be in the same order that they are here. That means that they must always be positioned together as they are and their relation to each other will never change. To play this pentatonic minor scale in any key other than E, you would have to slide the whole note diagram up or down the neck, moving all the positions together.


This will show you the individual positions.


Position 1:

Position 2:

Position 3:

Postion 4:

Position 5:

Now we can move on to start learning how to use this in your playing.