Let's start with a scale form you may already know (if not, it is a very common scale form for guitar).   You can call this scale B minor pentatonic or D major pentatonic.  Both scales use the same 5 notes, however play from B to B for B minor pentatonic and D to D for D major pentatonic.

The jam track we are using is from a tripfuse song called Mr. Nothin.  In the solo section, the progression is two bars of a B minor chord and 2 bars of an E7 chord repeating throughout the solo.

Here are the same 5 notes as above but now in 2nd position.

The goal is to eventually move back and forth between these two positions.  The next lesson will cover a great way to move from these two positions using a Bm7 arpeggio.

Besides using scales, we can and should practice using arpeggios.  There are many reasons to practice arpeggios:

• Learning the fretboard
• Learning what notes belong to what chord
• Improving your technique
• Training your ear to hear chord tones

Playing this D major arpeggio sounds great over the Bm chord and if you move the whole shape up 1 whole step you would have an E major arpeggio to play over the E7 chord in the progression.