The A Minor Pentatonic scale is one of the most commonly used scales in blues, rock, and many other styles. It is often the first scale guitarists learn. The Minor Pentatonic scale is based on the Natural Minor scale, which has seven notes. The Minor Pentatonic scale simplifies things by having--as the name implies--only five notes. In the key of A minor, those notes are the root (A), minor third (C), fourth (D), fifth (E), and minor seventh (G). Thus, the notes in the Minor Pentatonic Scale are a subset of the notes in the Natural Minor Scale.

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