B Major Pentatonic Scale — Banjolele

The B Major Pentatonic scale has 5 notes per octave and belongs to the pentatonic family. Here it is mapped onto the Banjolele's GCEA strings, position by position, with the root highlighted so the pattern anchors to B wherever you play it.

Open, sunny, and hard to play wrong — with no half steps there is nothing to clash, so every note sits comfortably over a major chord. Warm, folksy, and singable.

Heard in: Country, bluegrass, folk, gospel, Southern rock, and countless pop hooks — from "Amazing Grace" to "My Girl".

Reentrant tuning means the top string of the chart is not the lowest note — the maps below follow the Banjolele as it actually sounds, not a borrowed guitar chart.

Play each position slowly against the audio until the shape and the sound lock together, then take it to the progressions in B to use it over real changes.