Guitar: E Major Pentatonic Over the Changes

E Major Pentatonic runs 5 notes to the octave, laid out here on EADGBE with every E flagged. Mid-chorus the pattern is not what you need; where the root is when the chord changes underneath you is.

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 chorus is a single line with the comp dropped, so a scale here is what the picking hand walks through between the two or three phrases it actually meant to play.

Play it slowly against the audio until it stops being a shape, then put it over two bars of a form and let the chord tones decide which of the notes you actually keep.