Unlike chords, scales are played one note at a time. You should be able to see that the C major pentatonic scale uses all the notes from a C chord, plus a couple of extras. Play through the chord ...

Jim Oblon drops some blues science, demystifying the practice of alternating between parallel minor and major pentatonics ...

If you look closely at these arpeggio/chord shapes and compare them to shape 3 of the major pentatonic scale, you’ll see the shared notes. It’s unlikely we’d come up with note groupings like ...