Pentatonic Guitar Arpeggios

How to use these chord-tone maps

An arpeggio plays a chord’s notes one at a time. These tables show complete major, minor, augmented and diminished triads, and complete seventh chords, whose notes fit inside each five-note collection. Power chords and incomplete chords are not labeled as triads or sevenths.

Every scale example starts on C. A chord can start on another note inside that scale: for example, A minor seventh uses A, C, E and G, all contained in C major pentatonic. The chord’s interval formula is measured from its own root.

A five-note collection does not provide a full triad or seventh chord on every scale note. Use the actual chord tones listed here instead of assuming that every other pentatonic note forms an ordinary triad or seventh chord.

Read a chord’s notes in order, then use its fretboard chart to find them across the neck. The linked chart opens the same scale with that chord’s tones highlighted; it also includes the full scale and its position maps.

Note names follow the chart library’s sharp-based display: D# and E♭, for example, identify the same pitch here. Chord interval labels show each tone’s relationship to its chord root. Use the guitar intervals reference to read those formulas on the fretboard.