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E Neapolitan Major Pentatonic scale

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About the E Neapolitan Major Pentatonic scale

E Neapolitan Major Pentatonic is a five-note scale with a flat fifth and flat seventh over a major third. It's used for jazz and experimental writing.

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.

Box 1open
Box 2fr 4
Box 3fr 5
Box 4fr 6
Box 5fr 10

Notes and intervals

1 E Root
2 G sharp Major 3rd
3 A Perfect 4th
4 B flat Diminished 5th
5 D Minor 7th

Shapes

Chromatic

C C♯ D♭ D D♯ E♭ E F F♯ G♭ G G♯ A♭ A A♯ B♭ B

Circle of Fifths

C G D A E B F♯ G♭ C♯ D♭ G♯ A♭ D♯ E♭ A♯ B♭ F

Related scales

Neapolitan Major Pentatonic in other keys

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