A Pentatonic for Guitar

A Pentatonic, sometimes called "A Major Pentatonic" is a pentatonic scale. Pentatonic scales have 5 notes, "penta" comes from the greek word "Pentateuch" which means 5.

The A Pentatonic scale is derived from the A Major scale by taking scale degree 1, 2, 3, 5 and 6 of the scale.

A

B

C

E

F

A

W

W

m3

W

m3

Play scale