Originally Posted by: CSchlegelYou can determine the nature of any scale by picking one as the root, then identifying it's intervals (the distance from one note to the next).

B (1.5 steps) D (1 step) E (1.5 step) G (1 step) A (1 step) B

Therefore:

B (1st - root)
D (minor 3rd)
E (4th)
G (minor 6th)
A (minor 7th)

Therefore what you have is a pentatonic minor scale with a minor 6th instead of a 5th.

I'm not sure if I'm getting this....

Now that I've compared it to a B Major scale I see that the scale I'd come across resembles a Bm (That's if I'm right in thinking a minor scale pattern is like a major but with flattened 3rd 6th & 7th) but that seems to not fit into what you've said above so I'm guessing I've gone wrong somewhere in my logic?

Thanks Christopher