You can break it down even further like this:
Let's take the note A.
• An A minor arpeggio is just the note A with two more notes added.
• The A minor pentatonic scale is just the A minor arpeggio, with two extra notes.
• The A natural minor scale is just the A minor pentatonic scale with two extra notes
So you can say that the A minor arpeggio "lives" inside the A minor pentatonic scale, and also inside the A natural minor scale.
And the A minor pentatonic scale "lives" inside the A natural minor scale (and A dorian, Phrygian...)
This took me a LONG time to fully understand, and I wish I had learned it earlier instead of mostly focusing on playing scales up and down really fast :D. That's fun too of course, but getting deeper understanding develops your playing A LOT!
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