{"id":7600,"date":"2019-03-24T20:26:47","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T03:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/?p=7600"},"modified":"2019-03-24T20:26:47","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T03:26:47","slug":"finding-major-pentatonics-from-a-shape-barre-chords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/finding-major-pentatonics-from-a-shape-barre-chords\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding Major Pentatonics From A Shape Barre Chords"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you know the Major Pentatonic\/Blues Scale, chances are you only know it from a 6th string root, which is fine until you need one from a 5th string root&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Here is a great trick to use a chord shape that you probably use all the time, and good old box 1, which you probably know the best, to quickly &#8220;see&#8221; the Major Pentatonic\/Blues sound and grab it right away.<\/p>\n<p>As some sidebar fun, I&#8217;ll pretty much show you how to play &#8220;Gimme Three Steps&#8221; by Lynyrd Skynyrd because the chord progression lends itself really well to this type of playing.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-plugin-new youtube\" style=\"max-width:100%; width:640px; height:auto; padding-top:0; padding-bottom:0; margin:0 auto;margin:0 auto; border: 0px solid #fff;margin-bottom: 20px;\"><div style=\"width:640px;height:0;  padding-bottom: 56.25%; padding-top:0;\"><iframe width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/owV4yHicDbQ?wmode=opaque&showinfo=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;controls=1&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;vq=&amp;rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div>\n<p>Download this video <a href=\"https:\/\/bguvideos.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogvids\/UsingAShapeMajorChordsToSeeMajorPentatonicScale.mp4\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you know the Major Pentatonic\/Blues Scale, chances are you only know it from a 6th string root, which is fine until you need one from a 5th string root&#8230; Here is a great trick to use a chord shape that you probably use all the time, and good old box 1, which you probably [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7600"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7602,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7600\/revisions\/7602"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}