Minor Pentatonic Scales Part 2 – G Pentatonic Minor Scale

If you’ve practiced playing the E Minor pentatonic scale in the previous lesson, Minor Pentatonic Scale, you should be starting to get familiar with it. What I’m going to do now is very quickly show you the G Minor pentatonic scale. I’ll show you the tabs and fretboard diagrams for the five positions.

This is the first pentatonic box with the root note, G, on the third fret of the sixth string:

e |----------------|----------------|--------3---6---|
B |----------------|----------------|3---6-----------|
G |----------------|--------3---5---|----------------|
D |----------------|3---5-----------|----------------|
A |--------3---5---|----------------|----------------|
E |3---6-----------|----------------|----------------|

G Minor Pentatonic Scale First Box

Second box:

e |----------------|----------------|--------6---8---|
B |----------------|----------------|6---8-----------|
G |----------------|--------5---7---|----------------|
D |----------------|5---8-----------|----------------|
A |--------5---8---|----------------|----------------|
E |6---8-----------|----------------|----------------|

G Minor Pentatonic Scale Second Box

Third box:

e |-----------------|-----------------|--------8---10---|
B |-----------------|-----------------|8---11-----------|
G |-----------------|--------7---10---|-----------------|
D |-----------------|8---10-----------|-----------------|
A |--------8---10---|-----------------|-----------------|
E |8---10-----------|-----------------|-----------------|

G Minor Pentatonic Scale Third Box

Fourth box:

e |------------------|------------------|--------10---13---|
B |------------------|------------------|11---13-----------|
G |------------------|--------10---12---|------------------|
D |------------------|10---12-----------|------------------|
A |--------10---13---|------------------|------------------|
E |10---13-----------|------------------|------------------|

G Minor Pentatonic Scale Fourth Box

Fifth box:

e |------------------|------------------|--------13---15---|
B |------------------|------------------|13---15-----------|
G |------------------|--------12---15---|------------------|
D |------------------|12---15-----------|------------------|
A |--------13---15---|------------------|------------------|
E |13---15-----------|------------------|------------------|

G Minor Pentatonic Scale Fifth Box

After the fifth box, it repeats again from the first box an octave higher:

e |------------------|------------------|--------15---15---|
B |------------------|------------------|15---18-----------|
G |------------------|--------15---17---|------------------|
D |------------------|15---17-----------|------------------|
A |--------15---17---|------------------|------------------|
E |15---18-----------|------------------|------------------|

G Minor Pentatonic Scale First Box – One Octave Higher

If you’re wondering what happens below the first box at fret three, it repeats backwards, i.e., the fifth box one octave lower. This is what happens when you start in a higher key and run out of fretboard to fit all the patterns in:

e |----------------|----------------|--------0---3---|
B |----------------|----------------|0---3-----------|
G |----------------|--------0---2---|----------------|
D |----------------|0---2-----------|----------------|
A |--------0---2---|----------------|----------------|
E |0---3-----------|----------------|----------------|

G Minor Pentatonic Scale Fifth Box – One Octave Lower

Finally, this is the fretboard diagram for all of the notes on the guitar in the G Minor pentatonic scale:

G Minor Pentatonic Scale – All Notes