About the D Rock Pentatonic scale
D Rock Pentatonic is a gritty five-note scale with a raised fifth. It's used for hard rock and blues-rock riffs.
Positions
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 | D | Root |
| 2 | F | Minor 3rd |
| 3 | G | Perfect 4th |
| 4 | A sharp | Augmented 5th |
| 5 | C | Minor 7th |
Shapes
Chromatic
Circle of Fifths
Related scales
Rock Pentatonic in other keys
C Rock Pentatonic D flat Rock Pentatonic E flat Rock Pentatonic E Rock Pentatonic F Rock Pentatonic G flat Rock Pentatonic G Rock Pentatonic A flat Rock Pentatonic A Rock Pentatonic B flat Rock Pentatonic B Rock Pentatonic
Modes
The same notes, starting on a different note.
