DADGAD left-handed scale chart
F Minor Pentatonic Left-Handed Guitar Scale Chart
Minor Pentatonic scale notes, mirrored lefty fretboard positions and standard tab in DADGAD.
F Minor Pentatonic in DADGAD tuning gives you the notes F, G#, A#, C, D# 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.
Open a page
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
6-10 frets in mirrored left-handed view
8-12 frets in mirrored left-handed view
13-17 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--| A|------------------------1-----3--------| G|------------------1--3-----5-----------| D|------------1--3-----------------------| A|------1--3-----------------------------| D|1--3-----------------------------------|
1-5 frets • 13 note position run
Position 1 Tab
D|---------------------------------1--3--| A|------------------------1-----3--------| G|------------------1--3-----5-----------| D|------------1--3-----------------------| A|------1--3-----------------------------| D|1--3-----------------------------------|
1-5 frets • 13 note position run
Position 2 Tab
D|------------------------------------6--8--10-| A|---------------------------6-----8-----------| G|------------------------8-----10-------------| D|---------------6--8--10----------------------| A|---------6--8--------------------------------| D|6--8--10-------------------------------------|
6-10 frets • 15 note position run
Position 3 Tab
D|------------------------------8--10-| A|------------------------8--11-------| G|------------------8--10-------------| D|------------8--10-------------------| A|------8--11-------------------------| D|8--10-------------------------------|
8-12 frets • 12 note position run
Position 4 Tab
D|---------------------------------13-15-| A|------------------------13----15-------| G|------------------13-15----17----------| D|------------13-15----------------------| A|------13-15----------------------------| D|13-15----------------------------------|
13-17 frets • 13 note position run
Position 5 Tab
D|------------------------------------18-20-22-| A|---------------------------18----20----------| G|------------------------20----22-------------| D|---------------18-20-22----------------------| A|---------18-20-------------------------------| D|18-20-22-------------------------------------|
18-22 frets • 15 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.
- F
- G#
- A#
- C
- D#
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.
Library