E Major Pentatonic — Dobro

E Major Pentatonic runs 5 notes to the octave. Below it is laid onto this chair's GBDGBD neck with every E marked, because what you need mid-break is not the pattern — it is where the root is when the chord changes under you.

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 dobro break is slid, not fretted: the bar travels to each note, so a scale here is a list of places the bar may stop on the way — and on open-G strings, the stops that ring against an open string are the ones the melody keeps coming back to.

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