Full Circle Back to Form 5

If you were to continues higher up the neck beyond form 4, you would play form 5 in the 14th position. In that position form 5 would be an octave higher than when you played it in 2nd position. Probably not that useful unless you are soloing, but it is important to see how the positions come full circle. And also to understand how form 4 and 5 connect together.

|--O--|-----|-(O)-|-----|-----|--O--| - 1st string
|--O--|-----|--O--|-----|-----|--O--|
|-(O)-|-----|-----|--O--|-----|--O--|
|--O--|-----|-----|--O--|-----|-(O)-| - 4th string
   |                 |
  12th fret         15th fret
|_______________________|           |
    form 4 |________________________|
                   form 5

All 5 Minor Pentatonic Scale Forms Together

Here you can see how all 5 positions of the minor pentatonic scale fit together.

|-(O)-|-----|-----|--O--|-----|--O--|-----|--O--|-----|-----|--O--|-----|-(O)-|-----|
|--O--|-----|-----|--O--|-----|-(O)-|-----|-----|--O--|-----|--O--|-----|--O--|-----|
|-----|--O--|-----|--O--|-----|--O--|-----|-----|--O--|-----|-(O)-|-----|-----|--O--|
|-----|--O--|-----|-(O)-|-----|-----|--O--|-----|--O--|-----|--O--|-----|-----|--O--|
         |           |                 |           |           |
       3rd fret     5th fret          8th fret   10th fret    12th fret
|_______________________|                 |           |           |                 |
       form 5     |_______________________|           |           |                 |       
                     form 1   |_______________________|           |                 |
                                 form 2   |_______________________|                 |
                                                form 3      |_______________________|
                                                                      form 4

Of course learning a bunch of scale forms serves no purpose in itself. So go and make music out of these forms.

Minor Pentatonic Scales for Bass Jump Zone

Minor Pentatonic Forms 1 & 5
Minor Pentatonic Forms 2 & Extended Form 1
Minor Pentatonic Forms 3, 4 & Extended Form 2
All 5 Forms Together & Print Version