Originally Posted by: mahindru.gaurav

When I play the A minor pentatonic scale (or any scale in general) should I try to angle my fingers to avoid covering other bottom strings (even though those strings won't be played yet) or should I just play however as long as each note rings out clearly?

Your fretting hand fingers have 2 jobs.

1. Primary job is to fret the notes so they sound clearly & cleanly.

2. Mute other strings to stop unwanted notes & sound.

[br]So, as long as your fingers are muting those other strings that aren't supposed to be making sound, it's fine to cover other strings. In fact in some cases it can preferable to let your fingers do double duty here!

I cover fretting hand muting in detail here.

https://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial.php?input=2281

Hope that helps!