The following are examples of the A natural minor scale at various positions on the guitar neck. These examples assume standard guitar tuning (E, A, D, G, B, E open guitar strings lowest to highest).
The horizontal lines represent the guitar strings where the lowest guitar string is at the bottom. The vertical lines are the frets. The fret numbers are at the top of each pattern. The tonic of the scale (the first note) is in white. The dominant of the scale (the fifth note) is in gray.
These scale patterns can be transposed to other positions on the neck to produce other natural minor scales. Also, since not all of the patterns below start on the tonic of the scale the same patterns can produce other modes of the natural minor scale (see Heptatonic scale).
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