Scale family
F minor pentatonic
Five notes: F A♭ B♭ C E♭. Use the boxes below to find this scale in different parts of the neck.
- Notes
- F A♭ B♭ C E♭
- 1 ♭3 4 5 ♭7
- Same notes as
- A♭ major pentatonic Its relative
- Add the ♭5
- F blues The blue note, C♭
- Root, F
- Notes of the box
- Notes of the chord you're on
- Blue note
Jam along
The 12-bar blues in F
Play along with a repeating twelve-bar blues. The neck highlights the notes in your box that belong to the current chord.
Where it fits
Three places to use it
The blue note
Add the blue note
Put C♭ between B♭ and C and the minor pentatonic becomes the F blues scale. Try sliding through it into a neighbouring note.
Pentatonic
- F
- A♭
- B♭
- C
- E♭
Blues
- F
- A♭
- B♭
- C♭
- C
- E♭
Hear both
Exercises
Five drills, with a click
Start in box 1 and play along with the metronome. Follow the highlighted notes on the neck above.
- Box 1, up and downEvery note once, low to high and back. Say the note names.70 bpmLevel 1
- Connect box 1 to box 2Up box 1, slide to box 2, back down. The shared notes are the bridge.70 bpmLevel 1
- Groups of threeThree notes at a time, one step up each time, through box 1.80 bpmLevel 2
- Hit the chord's notesOver the 12-bar, land on the lit notes as each chord changes.90 bpmLevel 2
- Call and responseHear a two-bar phrase, then answer it in the gap.80 bpmLevel 2