Open E left-handed scale chart
C Minor Pentatonic Left-Handed Guitar Scale Chart
Minor Pentatonic scale notes, mirrored lefty fretboard positions and standard tab in Open E.
C Minor Pentatonic in Open E tuning gives you the notes C, D#, F, G, A# across a mirrored left-handed fretboard. Open E is big, direct and highly resonant, which suits left-handed players who want open-string power without losing a major tonal centre. 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.
0-4 frets in mirrored left-handed view
2-6 frets in mirrored left-handed view
11-15 frets in mirrored left-handed view
14-18 frets in mirrored left-handed view
18-22 frets in mirrored left-handed view
Standard Reference
Tab & Shape Readout
Position 1 Tab
E|------------------------------1--3--| B|------------------------1--4--------| G#|------------------2--4--------------| E|------------1--3--------------------| B|------1--4--------------------------| E|1--3--------------------------------|
0-4 frets • 12 note position run
Position 1 Tab
E|------------------------------1--3--| B|------------------------1--4--------| G#|------------------2--4--------------| E|------------1--3--------------------| B|------1--4--------------------------| E|1--3--------------------------------|
0-4 frets • 12 note position run
Position 2 Tab
E|------------------------------3--6--| B|------------------------4--6--------| G#|------------------2--4--------------| E|------------3--6--------------------| B|------4--6--------------------------| E|3--6--------------------------------|
2-6 frets • 12 note position run
Position 3 Tab
E|------------------------------------11-13-15-| B|------------------------------11-13----------| G#|------------------------11-14----------------| E|---------------11-13-15----------------------| B|---------11-13-------------------------------| E|11-13-15-------------------------------------|
11-15 frets • 15 note position run
Position 4 Tab
E|------------------------------15-18-| B|------------------------16-18-------| G#|------------------14-16-------------| E|------------15-18-------------------| B|------16-18-------------------------| E|15-18-------------------------------|
14-18 frets • 12 note position run
Position 5 Tab
E|------------------------------18-20-| B|------------------------18-20-------| G#|------------------19-21-------------| E|------------18-20-------------------| B|------18-20-------------------------| E|18-20-------------------------------|
18-22 frets • 12 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
Open E feels bright, ringing and slide-ready. It makes bright rhythm guitar and open slide vocabulary feel immediate.
- 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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