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

Bar Chords

A Barre Chord or Bar Chord, is a chord that uses one finger to bar several strings at a time. Typically, the 1st finger would be used to bar all

Suspended Chords

Suspended chords are often just referred to as Sus chords. There are two basic sus chords the Sus4 and Sus2. Sus4 means that the perfect 4th replaces the 3rd of