Guitar scale
Bb Minor Pentatonic Guitar Scale
Bb Minor Pentatonic is a five-note scale built from Bb, Db, Eb, F, and Ab. Use it to study the scale's notes, interval formula, and guitar fretboard positions.
- Notes
- BbDbEbFAb
- Formula
- 1 b3 4 5 b7
- Semitones
- 0 3 5 7 10
How to read this scale
The notes are shown as pitch classes first. Square markers represent Bb root notes in the fretboard view, while circular markers represent the other notes in the scale.
Use the interactive fretboard to locate the Bb root notes and connect the remaining minor pentatonic tones across standard tuning.
Fretboard diagram
Open this scale in the fretboard tool
Start with Bb Minor Pentatonic loaded, then adjust tuning, labels, colors, fret count, and orientation.
Open in interactive fretboardCommon chords and contexts
- Use Bb minor pentatonic over Bb minor chords, power-chord riffs, and many blues or rock solos.
- Its five-note layout removes the half-step tensions from natural minor, which makes it easy to phrase on guitar.