D Minor Pentatonic — Jacob Collier 5-String

D Minor Pentatonic is 5 notes per octave (pentatonic family), drawn here as position boxes on the Jacob Collier 5-String's DAEAD grid with the root flagged in each — learn one box deeply, then let the overlaps carry you into the next.

Gritty, bluesy, and direct — five notes with no half steps, so each one lands with attitude over a minor or dominant chord. The sound of rock and blues lead playing.

Heard in: Blues, rock, hard rock, metal, funk, and soul solos — the first scale most lead players learn and the one they never leave.

The DAEAD tuning mirrors around its middle E string, so a box does not keep its shape as it crosses the centre the way it would on a guitar — these maps draw every position where it actually falls.

Play each box top to bottom until the roots feel like home base, then practice crossing between boxes mid-phrase — neck freedom is exactly that crossing, nothing more.