The minor pentatonic scale is often used in Rock and Blues music. The Pentatonic scale is a great way to come up with licks for soloing. Pentatonic scales have just 5 notes. There are five different minor pentatonic scale patterns also known as boxes.
The notes of the G Minor Scale are G, A, A#, C, D, D#, F. The Chords in the G Minor scale are: Minor Dim Major Minor Minor Major Major
A Major chord in the 1st position below. A – RootC# – 3rdE – 5th When played on guitar the notes are in this order A, E, A, C#, E.
The following example uses Major Triads in C.Root inversion - root is on the lowest noteE---------B---------G------0--D----2----A--3------E--------- C E G R 3 5First inversion - root is on highest noteE---------B------1--G----0----D--2------A---------E--------- E