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Natural Minor Scale Guitar

Play A natural minor on the fretboard

A natural minor is A B C D E F G: A harmonic minor with the 7th lowered from G♯ to G, and the root sits at fret 5 of the low E string.

Raising G to G♯ puts you in harmonic minor; raising F to F♯ puts you in Dorian. All six open strings belong here, so the open G is the 7th, not a miss. Dots name pitches, not fingers. Frets 0–5 are one view of these seven notes, not the only fingering. Source: Open Music Theory: minor scales.

A natural minor in three fret windows

A natural minor notes from the open strings through fret 5
Frets 0–5. All six open strings sit in this scale; the A root is at fret 5 on the low E string.
A natural minor notes on frets 5 to 8
Frets 5–8. A is at fret 5 on both E strings; F is at fret 8 on the A string and fret 6 on the B string.
A natural minor notes on frets 12 to 15
Frets 12–15. A returns at fret 12 on the A string; G is at fret 15 on the low E string.

Same-root harmonic minor scale guitar raises that 7th to G♯. Dorian scale guitar raises the 6th to F♯ instead. Mixolydian scale guitar is a major-mode page with a lowered 7th. The full neck, including A minor blues, stays on guitar scales, and the five-note map is on pentatonic scale. The chords of a minor key, with one guitar shape for every root, are on minor chords.