About the C Aeolian Pentatonic scale
C Aeolian Pentatonic is a five-note natural-minor color with a flat sixth. It's used for minor-key rock, pop and film music.
Learn morePositions
Playable shapes for this scale up the neck. Tap any note to hear it.
Pentatonic boxes
The five shapes blues and rock are built on, the first scale most guitarists ever solo with, one box per note up the neck.
Notes and intervals
| 1 | C | Root |
| 2 | D | Major 2nd |
| 3 | E flat | Minor 3rd |
| 4 | G | Perfect 5th |
| 5 | A flat | Minor 6th |
Shapes
Chromatic
Circle of Fifths
Related scales
Aeolian Pentatonic in other keys
D flat Aeolian Pentatonic D Aeolian Pentatonic E flat Aeolian Pentatonic E Aeolian Pentatonic F Aeolian Pentatonic G flat Aeolian Pentatonic G Aeolian Pentatonic A flat Aeolian Pentatonic A Aeolian Pentatonic B flat Aeolian Pentatonic B Aeolian Pentatonic
Modes
The same notes, starting on a different note.
