DADGAD left-handed scale chart
C Minor Pentatonic Left-Handed Guitar Scale Chart
Minor Pentatonic scale notes, mirrored lefty fretboard positions and standard tab in DADGAD.
C Minor Pentatonic in DADGAD tuning gives you the notes C, D#, F, 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. The mirrored chart makes box one feel natural to a left-handed eye, which matters because this is often the first scale lefty players learn.
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Charts are mirrored for left-handed players. Standard tablature below stays unchanged because tab does not flip with handedness.
Primary Chart
Scale View
Full neck left-handed mirror view. Use Position 1 first, then move across the smaller windows.
1-5 frets in mirrored left-handed view
3-7 frets in mirrored left-handed view
13-17 frets in mirrored left-handed view
15-19 frets in mirrored left-handed view
18-22 frets in mirrored left-handed view
Standard Reference
Tab & Shape Readout
Position 1 Tab
D|------------------------------------1--3--5--| A|---------------------------1-----3-----------| G|------------------------3-----5--------------| D|---------------1--3--5-----------------------| A|---------1--3--------------------------------| D|1--3--5--------------------------------------|
1-5 frets • 15 note position run
Position 1 Tab
D|------------------------------------1--3--5--| A|---------------------------1-----3-----------| G|------------------------3-----5--------------| D|---------------1--3--5-----------------------| A|---------1--3--------------------------------| D|1--3--5--------------------------------------|
1-5 frets • 15 note position run
Position 2 Tab
D|------------------------------3--5--| A|------------------------3--6--------| G|------------------3--5--------------| D|------------3--5--------------------| A|------3--6--------------------------| D|3--5--------------------------------|
3-7 frets • 12 note position run
Position 3 Tab
D|------------------------------------13-15-17-| A|---------------------------13----15----------| G|------------------------15----17-------------| D|---------------13-15-17----------------------| A|---------13-15-------------------------------| D|13-15-17-------------------------------------|
13-17 frets • 15 note position run
Position 4 Tab
D|------------------------------15-17-| A|------------------------15-18-------| G|------------------15-17-------------| D|------------15-17-------------------| A|------15-18-------------------------| D|15-17-------------------------------|
15-19 frets • 12 note position run
Position 5 Tab
D|------------------------------------20-22-| A|------------------------18----20-22-------| G|---------------------20----22-------------| D|---------------20-22----------------------| A|------18-20-22----------------------------| D|20-22-------------------------------------|
18-22 frets • 14 note position run
Context
How To Use This Page
Minor Pentatonic feels direct, punchy and riff-friendly and is useful for blues-rock solos, familiar lead guitar and stubborn riff writing.
When a right-handed teacher says start on the sixth string, go to the far-right string in this chart and keep the tab as your note-order reference.
Anchor the root and b7, then bring in bends around the b3 for feel instead of speed alone
DADGAD feels open, droning and harmonically spacious. It rewards left-handed players who want ringing accompaniment and modal colours.
- C
- D#
- F
- 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.
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