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G Melodic Minor Pentatonic scale

About the G Melodic Minor Pentatonic scale

G Melodic Minor Pentatonic is used for jazz and modern minor melodies. Think of it as a five-note minor scale that reaches for a major seventh. It is G Minor Pentatonic with the seventh raised.

Its notes are G, B, C, D, and F. The formula is 1½ W W 4 semitones H.

Two of the notes in G Melodic Minor Pentatonic are black keys, B and F.

Notes and intervals

1GGRoot
2BbB♭Minor 3rd
3CCPerfect 4th
4DDPerfect 5th
5F#F♯Major 7th
Steps1½ W W 4 semitones H
Semitones3-2-2-4-1
Degrees1 3 4 5 7

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

Melodic Minor Pentatonic in other keys

Modes

The same notes, starting on a different note.

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G Melodic Minor Pentatonic scale on piano shown as colored note dots
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