5 notes · the ♭3 and ♭7 · the 5th mode of the major pentatonic scale
The same five notes as the major pentatonic a minor third above. Its ♭3 and ♭7 sit over major and minor chords alike, which is why it works over a blues where neither a major nor a minor scale does.
Heard in: Blues and rock lead playing, more or less in its entirety.
The whole scale, with each note’s degree underneath it.
Stacking thirds through this scale does not give chords: the gaps in it are not thirds. It is a scale to play over chords rather than one to build them from, so what matters here is which chords it fits, below.
The chords on F# whose every note this scale contains, biggest first. The largest of them is the one that pins the scale down: over F#m7 there is nothing in F# minor pentatonic that can sound wrong.
Same notes, different home. Which one you are in is decided by the chord underneath, not by the notes.
Every scale on every root is on the scale index, and every chord on the chord index. Where the shapes and the theory come from is on the about page.
Shows each chord the way this style would voice it, and marks which of its alternatives belong to the idiom.