The pentatonic scales are heard in music around the world. The five note scale has created many melodies. The minor pentatonic has more of a bluesy feel and is actually the same as the ‘blues scale’ minus one note.
The minor pentatonic scale starts on the root. And the next notes are the minor third, perfect fourth, perfect fifth, and minor seventh.
Here I’m writing out the entire range of the G minor pentatonic scale for saxophone with fingerings. Being comfortable across the range of the saxophone is important in your development as a musician. It gives you more options.
Let me know if this is useful!
In the key of G, the notes are:
Saxophone G Minor Pentatonic
Here are the fingers for saxophone.
Saxophone G Minor Pentatonic
And here’s the G minor pentatonic scale over the full range (without altissimo) of the saxophone.
Saxophone G Minor Pentatonic Lower Range
Saxophone G Minor Pentatonic Upper Range
hey Neal, this post is particularly very helpful, i was wondering if you could show me a fingering chart for the minor pentatonic scale in the key of A. I would greatly appreciate it. thanks for the help this website is awesome for beginner sax players.
Try to figure out the notes based on how a minor pentatonic is structured. You already know G minor pentatonic, no?
yea, your finger charts are just extremely helpful
where can I find more of these fingering charts? I’m struggling to learn by myself without these as I don’t know what keys to be holding down for what notes, it is a long drawn out process, having to stop every 2 seconds to see what keys are needed for which note in a scale and it’s putting me off learning, which is not what I want! I’m not looking to learn to read music, just to be able to play the saxophone