DADGAD left-handed scale chart

C Major Pentatonic Left-Handed Guitar Scale Chart

Major Pentatonic scale notes, mirrored lefty fretboard positions and standard tab in DADGAD.

C Major Pentatonic in DADGAD tuning gives you the notes C, D, E, G, A across a mirrored left-handed fretboard. DADGAD encourages drones and modal movement, which makes mirrored left-handed charts especially useful because familiar standard shapes stop behaving normally. This is a useful bridge between right-handed lesson material and lefty charts because the mirrored box still lines up with familiar tab patterns.

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Charts are mirrored for left-handed players. Standard tablature below stays unchanged because tab does not flip with handedness.

Formula 1 2 3 5 6
Tuning D A G D A D
Scale Notes 5 notes
Mirror View True lefty chart

Primary Chart

Scale View

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Root Note Scale Note

Full neck left-handed mirror view. Use Position 1 first, then move across the smaller windows.

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1-5 frets in mirrored left-handed view

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3-7 frets in mirrored left-handed view

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13-17 frets in mirrored left-handed view

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15-19 frets in mirrored left-handed view

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Standard Reference

Tab & Shape Readout

Position 1 Tab

D|------------------------------2--5--|
A|------------------------3--5--------|
G|------------------2--5--------------|
D|------------2--5--------------------|
A|------3--5--------------------------|
D|2--5--------------------------------|

1-5 frets • 12 note position run

Position 1 Tab

D|------------------------------2--5--|
A|------------------------3--5--------|
G|------------------2--5--------------|
D|------------2--5--------------------|
A|------3--5--------------------------|
D|2--5--------------------------------|

1-5 frets • 12 note position run

Position 2 Tab

D|------------------------------------5--7--|
A|------------------------3-----5--7--------|
G|---------------------5-----7--------------|
D|---------------5--7-----------------------|
A|------3--5--7-----------------------------|
D|5--7--------------------------------------|

3-7 frets • 14 note position run

Position 3 Tab

D|------------------------------14-17-|
A|------------------------15-17-------|
G|------------------14-17-------------|
D|------------14-17-------------------|
A|------15-17-------------------------|
D|14-17-------------------------------|

13-17 frets • 12 note position run

Position 4 Tab

D|------------------------------------17-19-|
A|------------------------15----17-19-------|
G|---------------------17----19-------------|
D|---------------17-19----------------------|
A|------15-17-19----------------------------|
D|17-19-------------------------------------|

15-19 frets • 14 note position run

Position 5 Tab

D|------------------------------19-22-|
A|------------------------19-22-------|
G|------------------19-21-------------|
D|------------19-22-------------------|
A|------19-22-------------------------|
D|19-22-------------------------------|

18-22 frets • 12 note position run

Context

How To Use This Page

Overview

Major Pentatonic feels clean, vocal and easy to phrase musically and is useful for country fills, melodic pop guitar and easy-to-hear major hooks.

Lefty Translation

Use the chart for the visual map and the tab for the exact picking order when you are adapting standard instructional material.

Practice Cue

Target the root and 6th for singing phrases instead of running the box blindly

Tuning Context

DADGAD feels open, droning and harmonically spacious. It rewards left-handed players who want ringing accompaniment and modal colours.

Scale Notes
  • C
  • D
  • E
  • G
  • A

Next Step

Matching Left-Handed Chords

These chord pages use the same tuning and key centre so you can move straight from a scale chart into left-handed rhythm work.

C Major chord Csus2 Sus2 chord Dsus2 Sus2 chord Gsus2 Sus2 chord Cadd9 Add9 chord C5 Power chord D5 Power chord G5 Power chord

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Library

Explore More Left-Handed Resources

Scale Library Browse the full left-handed scale library by key, scale family and tuning. Chord Library Open mirrored left-handed chord charts with standard tab references and related scales. Tuning Library Move the same chart system into drop tunings and open tunings without losing the workflow. Start With A Core Page Use a popular left-handed default page first, then branch into other keys and tunings. Popular Chord Page Jump into a familiar chord page and compare the mirrored grip box with the standard tab below it.