There is a road that every guitar player must travel down on their way to six string mastery. That road’s name is:

The Pentatonic Super Highway !!!

Okay, it’s not so much a road as it is a pathway through a scale you probably already know, The Major/Minor Pentatonic scale.

Playing the scale in this way removes the large stretches and organizes the notes in a way that is easy to grip, slide and bend.

So what could be better than having a pentatonic super highway to jam on…well having two of course, and between the two of them you can cover the entire neck.

Lets take a look at how these shapes fit into the overall pentatonic scale & how to play them.

The Pentatonic Super Highway Ascending

Typically players will use their third finger to do the slides when going up the scale and their first finger when traveling down. As with any “rule” though experimentation is encouraged, and it may lead you to some cool licks as a result.

The Pentatonic Super Highway Descending

Practice Exercise

Here’s an exercise to help you practice the two shapes. It ascends the neck using one shape and descends the neck using the other. Now get out on that highway and do some traveling.

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Root Notes

As you may know the pentatonic scale can be played as a major scale or a minor scale depending on which note you use as its root. Let’s check out where the major and minor root notes are for both forms of the P.S.H. Yeah I just made that acronym up.

 

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