Box 3

Adding one More box

We’ve covered three of the five pentatonic shapes. Let’s add one more:

Notice that, like box 5, box 3 also sits between two triad shapes. Neither triad on the top three strings is completely contained within box 3.

As always, we’ll first practice the single shape by itself.

Practice box 3 thoroughly before continuing.

Now let’s practice connecting shapes 1, 2, and 3:

When ready, practice the next "chunk" of three boxes together.

We’ve now covered quite a bit of the fretboard. To really hammer it home, let’s connect a chunk of four boxes:

Connecting four of the five pentatonic boxes together.