The E major pentatonic scale

All notes of the E major pentatonic scale: E, F#, G#, B, C#. Five notes: the major scale without its fourth and seventh degrees. With no semitones, nothing sounds wrong.

The notes

Steps in semitones: 2 – 2 – 3 – 2 – 3

On the keyboard

Guitar

Ukulele

E major
E minor
E harmonic minor
E melodic minor
E Dorian
E chord

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Every note on this page is computed, not typed in — following the rule that also makes F# major spell its seventh degree E#, not F.