Minor Pentatonic Dm shape

Learn how to play the Dm shaped Minor Pentatonic scale!

The same phenomenon of minor pentatonic fits around a chord shape will occur around all minor chord shapes.

Below you’ll find the Dm shaped minor pentatonic video lesson, study carefully, call out intervals as you play it.

The Dm shape can be tricky to remember the intervals of, especially below the root note.

It’s essential that you know all intervals below the root as well as the ones above since chord progressions and modes tie in with these shapes as well.

If you know all intervals of the shape now it will just get easier as you go along to add more.

The Dm shaped Minor Pentatonic

B.B. King‘s favorite blues box, the Dm shape sits just above the Em shape.

If Em is the most popular shape, then Dm is certainly the runner up.

Not just a favorite of B.B., the Dm shape has had thousands of solos played inside her, usually in combination with the Em shape.

As usual, to learn this scale shape properly, first play it in Am and Dm as seen in the video lessons, followed by the full cycle of 4ths.

To start using this shape and to find out if you actually know it well enough, jam over Blues Jam Tracks and the 2 Chord Loops (both a part of The Spy Tunes Method).