Tag Archives: major pentatonic scale

If you’re familiar with the CAGED system, then you know it’s a way to use open chord shapes to map out guitar chords all over the fretboard. But the system goes far beyond just chords to incorporate arpeggios, pentatonic scales, and diatonic scales. In this lesson we’re going to look at an exercise that that […]

One of the most useful skills when it comes to navigating the guitar fretboard is to be able to identify a pentatonic scale pattern from a single root note anywhere on the fretboard. This will allow you to not only play around any given position on the fretboard, but also be able to move seamlessly between positions and scale patterns.

The C major pentatonic scale is a 5-note scale derived from its parent scale, the C major scale. It consists of the notes C, D, E, G and A. In this lesson we’ll take a look at how the scale is built, the 5 CAGED positions of the scale, and some real world applications of the scale.

Mixolydian, along with Dorian, is one of my favorite modes to improvise over. It’s rather straightforward and gives you room to experiment and intermix several approaches. In this lesson we’re going to take a look at a three simple options for improvising a guitar solo in the Mixolydian mode.

While the minor blues scale may be synonymous with the blues scale, the major blues scale has its place in the genre as well. In this lesson we take a look at what makes up the major blues scale and map it to the guitar fretboard.