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Conclusion

Even if you only learn the 3 positions that can be used with the minor pentatonic scales for now, that will still cover vast the majority of the fretboard. Then you can pick up on the other two whenever you feel more comfortable with the other three.

To get familiar with moving from position to position, by moving randomly around the fretboard and try to hit notes that are in key. Don’t worry too much about “musicality” at this point just try to get your fingers to learn the notes.


In closing I thought it would be helpful to include a full fretboard view of all 5 positions, with the Root Note Positions, the starting positions of each Major Scale Pattern, and the placement of the Minor Pentatonic Scales for the three positions on the fretboard.

I will be using G major again for this diagram.

Bold = Root Notes
Blue = Minor Pentatonic Pattern in Position 2
Red = Minor Pentatonic Pattern in Position 3
Purple = Notes that are common to the Minor Pentatonic Patterns in both Positions 2 and 3.
Orange = Minor Pentatonic Pattern in Position 5

Frets:     3       5       7       9           12          15
E|---|-O-|-O-|---|-O-|---|-O-|-O-|---|-O-|---|-O-|---|-O-|-O-|
B|---|---|-O-|---|-O-|---|-O-|-O-|---|-O-|---|-O-|-O-|---|-O-|
G|---|-O-|---|-O-|-O-|---|-O-|---|-O-|---|-O-|-O-|---|-O-|---|
D|---|-O-|---|-O-|-O-|---|-O-|---|-O-|-O-|---|-O-|---|-O-|---|
A|---|-O-|-O-|---|-O-|---|-O-|---|-O-|-O-|---|-O-|---|-O-|-O-|
E|---|-O-|-O-|---|-O-|---|-O-|-O-|---|-O-|---|-O-|---|-O-|-O-|
           ^       ^       ^           ^       ^           ^
Positions: 1       2       3           4       5           1 (repeat...)