B Minor Pentatonic Scale on Guitalele

Play the B Minor Pentatonic scale on Guitalele with fretboard diagrams that map the pattern across the neck. The Minor Pentatonic scale has 5 notes per octave and belongs to the pentatonic family.

3 of Guitalele's 5 open strings belong to B Minor Pentatonic: A (the flat 7th), D (the flat 3rd), E (the 4th). The G and C strings fall outside it, and B is not available open. Open, the strings cover A2 to A4.

Gritty, bluesy, and direct — five notes with no half steps, so each one lands with attitude over a minor or dominant chord. The sound of rock and blues lead playing.

Heard in: Blues, rock, hard rock, metal, funk, and soul solos — the first scale most lead players learn and the one they never leave.

Guitalele is tuned A–D–G–C–E–A, with 15 frets to work with. Guitar shapes work unchanged on guitalele — finger them exactly as charted; every shape sounds a perfect fourth higher than on guitar.

Each position shows the scale notes and their intervals from the root so you can connect the shape to its sound, hear it with audio playback, and practice it in any register. Movable patterns let you transpose the same fingering to other keys once it is learned.

Once a position is under your fingers, link the B Minor Pentatonic scale to the chords it harmonizes and to progressions in the key of B to start improvising and writing with it. Working a scale alongside its chords is the fastest way to make it stick and to hear how it colors a progression.