This example is undeniably shape 5 E major pentatonic, but try looking at it from the perspective of a G chord shape. If you barre at the 9th fret (treating the barre as the nut) and add the G ...

Like a comfortable pair of slippers it’s easy to slip into trusted pentatonic shapes without really ... 12th position for an Am6 (A C E F#) flavour. The beauty of blues-based lead is that you’re not ...

If you ever find yourself getting bored of the same old chord voicings that you’ve been using since day one, you’re not alone. As guitar players we often learn, and stick to, chord rules that involve ...

This relates as much to chord shapes and arpeggios as pentatonic ... illustrated here with an inverted fingering for the major pentatonic (G A C D E). Here’s a really useful pattern of five ...