C Minor Pentatonic on Guitar

C Minor Pentatonic runs 5 notes to the octave. Below it is mapped onto this instrument's E–A–D–G–B–E fretboard with every C marked, because what a player needs mid-number is not the pattern but where the root is when the harmony moves under it.

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.

Scale work in the armonía is for the passing figure that joins one chord to the next — a few notes at the seam of a change, played by one member while the other keeps the pattern intact.

Take it slowly against the playback until the geometry stops being geometry, then put it under a number in C minor and let the written line pick its own notes out of it.