How To Play Minor Scales

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Minor Scale Patterns

These two guitar minor scales should help you get started in learning to improvise, read music or play songs in a minor key.

Learn both scales up and down the neck.

A Pentatonic (Minor) Scale

A Aeolian (Minor) Scale

Key Tasks

  1. Memorize both pentatonic and diatonic minor scale forms.
  2. Use the scales to improvise in the minor key: minor pentatonic and diatonic.
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