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G Minor Six Pentatonic scale

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About the G Minor Six Pentatonic scale

G Minor Six Pentatonic is a minor pentatonic brightened with a natural 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.

Box 1open
Box 2fr 3
Box 3fr 6
Box 4fr 8
Box 5fr 10

Notes and intervals

1 G Root
2 B flat Minor 3rd
3 C Perfect 4th
4 D Perfect 5th
5 E Major 6th

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

Minor Six Pentatonic in other keys

Modes

The same notes, starting on a different note.

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