Am at 19th fret

Home Up Am pentatonic at C Am Pentatonic at D Am pentatonic at E Am at G 15th fret A minor open Am pentatonic at G Am at 19th fret

As I mentioned earlier, the notes repeat themselves every 12 frets. This is not only true with A minor pentatonic, but for every scale. The same goes for B minor, C minor, A major Pentatonic, B major and all the other scales. 

Look at the illustration above. Notice the two yellow circles and how they both have the same notes and fingering. Look at the orange circles and you will notice the same thing.  Everything repeats after 12 frets. Every circle, scale note and chord repeats after 12 frets. Everything is just at a different octave. 

The illustration below shows the A minor pentatonic scale at the 17 fret. Notice that the fingering is the same at the 17th fret as it is on the 5th fret. It just starts at a different octave. 

Both positions use the fingering 1-4 1-3 1-3 1-3 1-4 1-4. And at both positions the notes are A-C D-E G-A C-D E-G A-C.  This is a great place to play lead over the Am and C chords. Play from A to A for the Am and C to C for the C chord. Try to play the notes of each chord when you play lead. Or at least until we get to the modes.

A C D E G
 1 = Index finger
  2 = Middle finger
  3 = Ring finger
  4 =  Pinkie
  T = Thumb

Below is what the tablature would look like to play the A minor pentatonic scale at the root note fret.

---------------------------------5--8----
--------------------------5--8-----------
-------------------5--7------------------
-------------5--7------------------------
------5--7-------------------------------
-5-8-------------------------------------

This is the tablature for playing this scale at the 17th fret.

------------------------------------------17-20-
----------------------------------17-20---------
-------------------------17-19------------------
-----------------17-19--------------------------
---------17-19----------------------------------
-17-20------------------------------------------

You should already have this finger pattern memorized from working on the root note 5th fret. If you don't, I suggest you go back and review. Play this pattern at the 17th fret for a few hours and then learn the next position. 

The next position that we need to learn will be the A minor pentatonic scale in the open position. This position starts with the open Low E string.

Good Luck,

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