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A Pentatonic Major Scale notes: A B C# E F# (R 2 3 5 6). See all 5 positions on an interactive guitar fretboard and hear each one played. Free, with 20,000+ shapes.

A Pentatonic Major
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Tunings

Current tuning: Standard

Note: Scale, chord and arpeggio positions are worked out for every tuning, so some may stretch wider or be fewer than in Standard. Learning and Song shapes are written for Standard, so those pages always show Standard tuning.

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APentatonic Major Scale
Notes

A, B, C#, E, F#

Degrees

R, 2, 3, 5, 6

Intervals

R, 2, 2, 3, 2

Playback settings

90 BPM

A Pentatonic Major Scale

The Pentatonic Major Scale is the Major Scale with its 4th and 7th left out, the two notes most likely to clash with a chord. The five that remain sound open and happy and are hard to play wrongly, which is why country, pop and rock players use it for melodies and solos over major chords. It has the same notes as the Pentatonic Minor Scale a minor 3rd below.

Learn more about A Pentatonic Major Scale

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