Open E left-handed scale chart
D# Minor Pentatonic Left-Handed Guitar Scale Chart
Minor Pentatonic scale notes, mirrored lefty fretboard positions and standard tab in Open E.
D# Minor Pentatonic in Open E tuning gives you the notes D#, F#, G#, A#, C# 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.
2-6 frets in mirrored left-handed view
5-9 frets in mirrored left-handed view
9-13 frets in mirrored left-handed view
14-18 frets in mirrored left-handed view
17-21 frets in mirrored left-handed view
Standard Reference
Tab & Shape Readout
Position 1 Tab
E|------------------------------------2--4--6--| B|------------------------------2--4-----------| G#|------------------------2--5-----------------| E|---------------2--4--6-----------------------| B|---------2--4--------------------------------| E|2--4--6--------------------------------------|
2-6 frets • 15 note position run
Position 1 Tab
E|------------------------------------2--4--6--| B|------------------------------2--4-----------| G#|------------------------2--5-----------------| E|---------------2--4--6-----------------------| B|---------2--4--------------------------------| E|2--4--6--------------------------------------|
2-6 frets • 15 note position run
Position 2 Tab
E|------------------------------6--9--| B|------------------------7--9--------| G#|------------------5--7--------------| E|------------6--9--------------------| B|------7--9--------------------------| E|6--9--------------------------------|
5-9 frets • 12 note position run
Position 3 Tab
E|------------------------------9--11-| B|------------------------9--11-------| G#|------------------10-12-------------| E|------------9--11-------------------| B|------9--11-------------------------| E|9--11-------------------------------|
9-13 frets • 12 note position run
Position 4 Tab
E|------------------------------------14-16-18-| B|------------------------------14-16----------| G#|------------------------14-17----------------| E|---------------14-16-18----------------------| B|---------14-16-------------------------------| E|14-16-18-------------------------------------|
14-18 frets • 15 note position run
Position 5 Tab
E|------------------------------18-21-| B|------------------------19-21-------| G#|------------------17-19-------------| E|------------18-21-------------------| B|------19-21-------------------------| E|18-21-------------------------------|
17-21 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.
- D#
- F#
- G#
- A#
- C#
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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