The Major Pentatonic is used in country or country blues. Basically, any chord progression that would use the Major Scale. Pentatonic scales have just 5 notes. There are five different major pentatonic scale patterns also known as boxes.

Major Pentatonic Scale Shapes
Major Pentatonic Scale Shapes
Major Pentatonic Scale Shapes
Major Pentatonic Scale Shapes
Major Pentatonic Scale Shapes

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Finger Pain

Your fingertips will hurt at first. The best way around this is to keep playing. No really, play every day for at least 20 minutes. Eventually, you will build calluses

CAGED

The idea of the CAGED System is that the open chord shapes can be moved up the neck in order (spell out CAGED). There are books on this topic, I

Music Terms

List of music terms: Arpeggio: Playing notes of a chord one at a time. Attack: The initial sound of a note. Barre or Bar Chord: A chord where one finger