A Minor Pentatonic — Vihuela

A Minor Pentatonic is 5 notes per octave (pentatonic family), drawn here as position boxes on the Vihuela's ADGBE 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 grid under these maps is the standard one, so the boxes are the boxes guitarists already know — the ADGBE grid.

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.