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E Minor Six Pentatonic scale

About the E Minor Six Pentatonic scale

E Minor Six Pentatonic is used for jazz, funk and modal solos. Think of it as a minor pentatonic brightened with a natural sixth. It is E Minor Pentatonic with the seventh lowered.

Its notes are E, G, A, B, and C. The formula is 1½ W W W 1½. It is the fourth mode of A Mixolydian Pentatonic (alt).

E Minor Six Pentatonic draws one black key from the piano, C. Ascending through the mode, four white keys fall in a row.

Notes and intervals

1EERoot
2GGMinor 3rd
3AAPerfect 4th
4BBPerfect 5th
5C#C♯Major 6th
Steps1½ W W W 1½
Semitones3-2-2-2-3
Degrees1 3 4 5 6

Shapes

Chromatic

CC♯D♭DD♯E♭EFF♯G♭GG♯A♭AA♯B♭B

Circle of Fifths

CGDAEBF♯G♭C♯D♭G♯A♭D♯E♭A♯B♭F

Related scales

Minor Six Pentatonic in other keys

Modes

The same notes, starting on a different note.

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E Minor Six Pentatonic scale on piano shown as colored note dots
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