Guitar Fills With A Major Pentatonic

A Major Pentatonic runs 5 notes to the octave. Below it is laid onto this chair's EADGBE fretboard with every A marked, because what a fill needs mid-song is not the pattern — it is where the root is when the chord changes under it.

Open, sunny, and hard to play wrong — with no half steps there is nothing to clash, so every note sits comfortably over a major chord. Warm, folksy, and singable.

Heard in: Country, bluegrass, folk, gospel, Southern rock, and countless pop hooks — from "Amazing Grace" to "My Girl".

A guitar fill is a flatpicked line, and it lives closest to the vocal melody of any chair in the arrangement — the scale is what fills the bar where the melody is only a long note.

Play it slowly against the audio until the shape stops being a shape, then take it to a song in A and let the melody pick its own notes out of it.