About the E Dorian Pentatonic scale
E Dorian Pentatonic is a five-note dorian color, minor with a hopeful sixth. It's used for jazz, funk and modal solos.
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 | E | Root |
| 2 | F sharp | Major 2nd |
| 3 | G | Minor 3rd |
| 4 | B | Perfect 5th |
| 5 | C sharp | Major 6th |
Shapes
Chromatic
Circle of Fifths
Related scales
Dorian Pentatonic in other keys
C Dorian Pentatonic D flat Dorian Pentatonic D Dorian Pentatonic E flat Dorian Pentatonic F Dorian Pentatonic G flat Dorian Pentatonic G Dorian Pentatonic A flat Dorian Pentatonic A Dorian Pentatonic B flat Dorian Pentatonic B Dorian Pentatonic
Modes
The same notes, starting on a different note.
